[Zope3-dev] Notations for paths

[Gary Poster]

Florent Guillaume wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 18:01, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
>>Nobody should be doing any conversions directly.  There should be a 
>>location class, and only strings or instances of the location class should 
>>be allowed.  Code which uses locations should invoke the location 
>>constructor on any input, to ensure that strings become locations.
> 
> Why go to those lengths when we can have a perfectly effective location
> as a tuple of names in trivial bijection with a string?

I like the encapsulation idea if it can eliminate the need for the 
convenience functions and make that more intuitive.  I doubt __str__ 
should return a unicode type, though, which might be a deal-breaker.  Is 
that true?