[Python-Dev] Adding the 'path' module (was Re: Some RFE forreview)

Tony Meyer t-meyer at ihug.co.nz
Mon Jun 27 02:08:34 CEST 2005


[Reinhold Birkenfeld]
>> One more issue is open: the one of naming. As "path" is already the 
>> name of a module, what would the new object be called to avoid 
>> confusion? pathobj?  objpath? Path?

[Michael Hoffman]
> I would argue for Path.

Granted "path" is actually os.path, but I don't think it's wise to have
stdlib modules whose names are differentiated only by case, especially on
Windows (and other case-insensitive filesystems).

=Tony.Meyer



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