[Python-ideas] os.listdir with current working directory asdefault

[R. David Murray]

"Raymond Hettinger" <python at rcn.com> wrote:
> >> os.listdir(os.curdir) <-> os.listdir()
> 
> +1
> 
> Lots of functions have useful defaults and this one would be familiar to everyone who programs (what does "dir" do without arguments 
> on Windows or an "ls" do without arguments for Linux).

+1.  I remember being surprised that os.listdir() did not work
(I was expecting the requested behavior).  If this were not
parallel to the default behavior of ls and dir I'd be -1, but
as it is I think it is less surprising for it to work.

--David