[Python-ideas] Working with Path objects: p-strings?

[Koos Zevenhoven]

On Mar 30, 2016 00:39, "Ethan Furman" <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
>
> On 03/29/2016 02:30 PM, Greg Ewing wrote:
>>
>> Paul Moore wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> P(wherever)/youwant/togo
>>
>>
>> If P were a suitable seed object, this could be
>>
>>    P/wherever/youwant/togo
>
>
> An interesting idea, but how would you differentiate between relative and
absolute paths?
>

Indeed interesting. It would currently work with P = Path(''), kinda like
my earlier p'' / ... example. It works even with relative paths, although
they would not look like relative ones because of the first /. How short
can a name be to be acceptable in builtins?-)

K (mobile)
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