[Python-Dev] The path module PEP

[Charles Cazabon]

Phillip J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
> 
> I'd also note that using the / operator seems to me to be a big win on 
> "beautiful is better than ugly".

It screams "magic" in a very un-Pythonic (and possibly very Perl-like) way.
I'm not aware of any other part of the standard library grossly abusing
standard operators in this way.  As others have noted, "/" is being used here
to mean precisely the opposite of what it means in every other use in Python,
which alone should be justification for getting rid of it.

Charles
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