On Sat, 17 Sep 2005, John J Lee wrote:

On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Greg Ewing wrote:

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Trent Mick wrote:

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If this *does* get added (I'm +0) then let's call it "relpath" or "relpathto" as in the various implementations out there:

+1 on that, too. Preferably just "relpath". [...]

+1 on adding this function, and on "relpath" as the name. I

wanted this

function just a few weeks ago.

Hello All, This is my first post here, so first a few words about me. My name is Richard Barran. I live in Paris (but I'm English) and earn my living by coding Oracle stored procedures in PL/SQL. I discovered Python 2 years ago and now use it in my day job for a variety of purposes: quick scripts, unit testing of my "proper" PL/SQL stuff, code deployment scripts and so on. Now down to business: I'm the author of one of the "relpath" functions posted on the ActiveState website* so I've read this thread with interest. For some time I've been thinking of contributing something back to Python, but I thought the relpath function was too specialised for inclusion in the standard library. Also I wasn't clear on how to go about getting the support of a python-dev member, as required in the development process guidelines paper :-) So I have a question: do the previous mails mean that a relpath function might possibly be a usefull addition to os.path? And if the answer to the previous question is "yes", then should I submit a patch, or is someone else already working on it? Regards, Richard Barran * my version is the one at http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/ Python/Recipe/302594