Treating paths as strings is a bad assumption.

[frenzeldk]

Currently Staffeli assumes specific string representations of paths. This leads to an incompatibility with e.g. PowerShell as it prepends .\ to all relative paths.

[oleks]

I'm not sure what you are suggesting in place of Python strings?

[athas]

Paths are logically byte strings.

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[oleks]

Closing this as I don't understand what the suggested alternative is to using os.path-functions.