[Python-Dev] PEP 355 status

[Nick Coghlan]

Talin wrote:
> Part 3: Does this mean that the current API cannot be improved?
> 
> Certainly not! I think everyone (well, almost) agrees that there is much 
> room for improvement in the current APIs. They certainly need to be 
> refactored and recategorized.
> 
> But I don't think that the solution is to take all of the path-related 
> functions and drop them into a single class, or even a single module.

+1 from me.

(for both the fraction I quoted and everything else you said, including the 
locator/inode/file distinction - although I'd also add that 'symbolic link' 
and 'directory' exist at a similar level as 'file').

Cheers,
Nick.

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