[Python-Dev] mkdir -p in python

Fred Drake fdrake at acm.org
Tue Jul 20 17:43:27 CEST 2010


On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
> It refers to the guideline that you shouldn't have a single function
> with two (or more) different behaviour and an argument that does
> nothing but select between them.

In particular, when that argument is almost never given a variable
value, but is specified using a constant at the call site.


  -Fred

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