[Zope3-dev] Notations for paths

Phillip J. Eby pje@telecommunity.com
Fri, 20 Dec 2002 10:15:05 -0500


At 02:37 PM 12/20/02 +0000, you wrote:
>[stripping Cc, everybody reads zope3-dev]
>
>I wrote:
> > As Guido says, having the canonical form for an absolute location be
> > u'foo/bar' would be fine with me. It's even more canonical than a tuple
> > of names because a name isn't allowed to have a '/' in it (and all other
> > Unicode characters, or the empty string, are allowed).
>
>Hmm, I'll take that back. The string representation cannot distinguish
>between () (the root) and ('') (traversal to an empty name from the
>root).

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