June 26, 2005
3:31 p.m.
Phillip> It has many ways to do the same thing, and many of its property Phillip> and method names are confusing because they either do the same Phillip> thing as a standard function, but have a different name (like Phillip> the 'parent' property that is os.path.dirname in disguise), or Phillip> they have the same name as a standard function but do something Phillip> different (like the 'listdir()' method that returns full paths Phillip> rather than just filenames). To the extent that the path module tries to provide a uniform abstraction that's not saddled with a particular way of doing things (e.g., the Unix way or the Windows way), I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing. Skip