[issue17545] os.listdir and os.path.join inconsistent on empty path
W. Owen Parry
report at bugs.python.org
Thu May 16 20:43:27 CEST 2013
W. Owen Parry added the comment:
I started working on a patch for this, but the more I think about it the less I am convinced it is wanted.
The issue requests that os.listdir('') be equal to os.listdir('.')
The given example of os.path.join doesn't follow this:
>>> os.path.join('','aaa')
'aaa'
>>> os.path.join('.','aaa')
'.\\aaa'
This makes sense: prepending an empty path should be a no-op, while prepending the current directory has a different meaning.
It seems consistent in this case that listing an empty path and listing the current directory should have different meanings.
Is there any other traction/use case for this change?
----------
nosy: +woparry
_______________________________________
Python tracker <report at bugs.python.org>
<http://bugs.python.org/issue17545>
_______________________________________
More information about the Python-bugs-list
mailing list