On Fri, 22 Nov 2013 21:45:17 +0100 (CET) andrew.kuchling <python-checkins@python.org> wrote:

http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/cce14bc9b675 changeset: 87371:cce14bc9b675 user: Andrew Kuchling <amk@amk.ca> date: Fri Nov 22 15:45:02 2013 -0500 summary: Wording changes to pathlib docs.

Only possibly-controversial change: joinpath() was described as:

"Calling this method is equivalent to indexing the path with each of the *other* arguments in turn."

'Indexing' is an odd word to use, because you can't subscript Path or PurePath objects, so I changed it to "combining".

You're right, "indexing" dates back to when pathlib used subscripting to combine paths together (e.g. you would write my_path['Lib']['test'] or my_path['Lib/test'] to access the 'Lib/test' subpath of my_path), but now pathlib uses the '/' operator. Regards Antoine.