[Python-3000] cleaning up *path.py code duplication

[Jack Diederich]

Ooph, there is some dissonance in the comments and the code.  Cut-n-paste
errors I suppose.

-- ntpath.py --
def islink(path):
    """Test for symbolic link.  On WindowsNT/95 always returns false"""
    return False

<snip 10 lines>

# This follows symbolic links, so both islink() and isdir() can be true
# for the same path.

def isfile(path):
    """Test whether a path is a regular file"""
-- end exeprt --

I'll try and keep a list so those in the know can do a post mortem on the
comments.  I'm only useful for vetting the *nix versions.

-Jack

On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 05:35:33PM -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> Sounds like a great 2.6 project. Beware of things that are
> intentionally different between platforms of course!
> 
> --Guido
> 
> On 8/25/06, Jack Diederich <jackdied at jackdied.com> wrote:
> > While checking find() uses in the stdlib I noticed that the various
> > path modules have duplicate code and docstrings for some generic path
> > manipulations.  Delightfully they even have different implementations
> > and docstrings for identical functions. splitext() is a great bad
> > example - os2emxpath.splitext() builds up strings by doing char-by-char
> > concatenations where everyone else uses find() + slice.
> >
> > If there are no objections I'll move these into a module named
> > genericpath.py and change the others to do
> >
> > from genericpath import func1, func2, funcN
> >
> > where applicable.
> >
> > So, any objections? Should it be a 2.6 backport too?
> >
> > -Jack
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