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

[Random832]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016, at 17:37, Brett Cannon wrote:

> > You can't add an int to a float and expect to get an integer back,
> > either.
> 
> 
> Sure, but that's because int and float are both part of the same type
> hierarchy (https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3141/).

...so would str and path, in the scenario being discussed.

The argument presented here against allowing paths to be strings is also
an argument against allowing ints to be Numbers.