[Python-ideas] PEP 428 - object-oriented filesystem paths

Eric Snow ericsnowcurrently at gmail.com
Sat Oct 6 06:57:48 CEST 2012


On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> I think overloading '/' is ugly (dividing paths??).

Agreed.  +1 on the proposed API in this regard.  It's pretty easy to
grok.  I also like that item access here mirrors how paths are treated
as sequences/iterables in other parts of the API.

It wouldn't surprise me if the join syntax is the most contentious
part of the proposal. ;)

-eric



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