[Python-Dev] Path object design

[stephen at xemacs.org]

Michael Urman writes:

 > Ah, but how do you know when that's wrong? At least under ftp:// your
 > root is often a mid-level directory until you change up out of it.
 > http:// will tend to treat the targets as roots, but I don't know that
 > there's any requirement for a /.. to be meaningless (even if it often
 > is).

ftp and http schemes both have authority ("host") components, so the
meaning of ".." path components is defined in the same way for both by
section 5 of RFC 3986.

Of course an FTP server is not bound to interpret the protocol so as
to mimic URL semantics.  But that's a different question.