9 Oct
2012
9 Oct
'12
1:05 a.m.
Speaking as a relatively inexperienced user (whose opinions should justly be given little weight as such),
- `p[q]` joins path q to path p
-1: Doesn't make sense at first glance
- `p + q` joins path q to path p
-1: For reasons stated elsewhere by several others; Path + (Path or str) != str + str
- `p / q` joins path q to path p
+1: Short, makes sense if you can get your brain past "/ in Python means 'divide'"
- `p.join(q)` joins path q to path p
+1: Except it needs a different name, for the same reasons as +
What about p.unite(q)? The one word definition of 'join' is 'unite' and it's definitely not used by str, and I don't know of anywhere else that it is used. And it's only one extra character instead of the 4 of 'pathjoin' or 'joinpath'.