Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Jason> Filesystem paths are in fact strings on all operating > Jason> systems I'm aware of. > > I have no idea what you could mean by that. The data structure used > to represent a filesystem on all OS filesystems I've used is a graph > of directories and files. A filesystem object is located by > traversing a path in that graph. > > Of course there's a string representation, especially for human use
if you define everything that can be identified by one or more well-defined strings as a string, everything is a string. </F> _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
