> > Guido van Rossum wrote:
> >=20
> > > Why don't you care about the backwards incompatibilities?
> >=20
> > Because it's addressed by using a str subclass.
>=20
> Which strikes *me* as an ugly hack. :-(
And it's dangerous. Code which assumes strings on sys.path and
modifies sys.path will fail silently rather than giving an error.
Example (not too realistic, I admit):
sys.path =3D [ os.path.abspath(d) for d in sys.path ]
which collapses string subclasses to strings :-(
Paul.
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