[Python-Dev] The path module PEP
Aaron Bingham
bingham at cenix-bioscience.com
Thu Jan 26 16:34:32 CET 2006
Stefan Rank wrote:
>on 26.01.2006 14:15 Paul Moore said the following:
>[snip]
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>>Arguably, Path objects should always maintain an absolute path - there
>>should be no such thing as a relative Path. So you would have
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>you realise that one might need and/or want to represent a relative path?
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Of course, but it seems to me a relative path is a different type from
an absolute path, in the same way that a timedelta is different from a
datetime.
For example:
* You can't open a relative path without reference to some absolute
path (possibly the cwd).
* You can't join two absolute paths, but you can join a relative path
to another relative path, or to an absolute path.
Cheers,
Aaron
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