[Python-Dev] PEP 355 status

[Luis P Caamano]

Thanks for your reply, that's the kind of info I was looking for to
decide what to do.  Good enough, I'll move on then.

Thanks

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Luis P Caamano
Atlanta, GA USA

On 9/29/06, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> I would recommend not using it. IMO it's an amalgam of unrelated
> functionality (much like the Java equivalent BTW) and the existing os
> and os.path modules work just fine. Those who disagree with me haven't
> done a very good job of convincing me, so I expect this PEP to remain
> in limbo indefinitely, until it is eventually withdrawn or rejected.
>
> --Guido
>
> On 9/29/06, Luis P Caamano <lcaamano at gmail.com> wrote:
> > What's the status of PEP 355, Path - Object oriented filesystem paths?
> >
> > We'd like to start using the current reference implementation but we'd
> > like to do it in a manner that minimizes any changes needed when Path
> > becomes part of stdlib.
> >
> > In particular, the reference implementation in
> > http://wiki.python.org/moin/PathModule names the class 'path' instead
> > of 'Path', which seems like a source of name conflict problems.
> >
> > How would you recommend one starts using it now, as is or renaming
> > class path to Path?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
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> > Luis P Caamano
> > Atlanta, GA USA
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