[Python-Dev] The path module PEP

[Michael Hoffman]

[Charles Cazabon]

> 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.

I think the use of the modulo operator for string substitution is
pretty comparable, despite it being in the interpreter rather than in
the stdlib. And some of us have come to love that, too.
-- 
Michael Hoffman <hoffman at ebi.ac.uk>
European Bioinformatics Institute