PEP on path module for standard library

[Michael Hoffman]

Many of you are familiar with Jason Orendorff's path module
<http://www.jorendorff. com/articles/python/path/>, which is frequently
recommended here on c.l.p. I submitted an RFE to add it to the Python
standard library, and Reinhold Birkenfeld started a discussion on it in
python-dev
<http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-June/054438.html>.

The upshot of the discussion was that many python-dev'ers wanted path
added to the stdlib, but Guido was not convinced and said it must have a
PEP. So Reinhold and I are going to work on one. Reinhold has already
made some changes to the module to fit the python-dev discussion and put
it in CPython CVS at nondist/sandbox/path.

For the PEP, do any of you have arguments for or against including path?
Code samples that are much easier or more difficult with this class
would also be most helpful.

I use path in more of my modules and scripts than any other third-party
module, and I know it will be very helpful when I no longer have to
worry about deploying it.

Thanks in advance,
--
Michael Hoffman

[qvx]

Ron Adam wrote:

Bengt Richter wrote:

<indulging what="my penchant for seeking the general behind the specific ;-)"

There is a thing called "Asynchrono us pluggable protocol". It is
Microsoft's technology (don't flame me now):

"""
Asynchronous pluggable protocols enable developers to create pluggable
protocol handlers, MIME filters, and namespace handlers that work with
Microsoft® Internet Explorer...

Applications can use pluggable protocol handlers to handle a custom
Uniform Resource Locator (URL) protocol scheme or filter data for a
designated MIME type.
"""

In other words you can develop you own plugin which would allow
Internet Explorer to open URLs like "rar://c/my/doc/book.rar". (I was
going to write plugin for .rar in order to enable offsite browsing of
downloaded portions of web sites, all from an archive file).
You could give it a look. If only to see that it is Mycrosofthonic:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/n...iews_entry.asp.
Qvx