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

[Georg Brandl]

George Sakkis schrieb:
> On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 1:46 AM, Georg Brandl <g.brandl-hi6Y0CQ0nG0 at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> os.listdir(os.curdir)  <-> os.listdir()
>>>
>>> This seems to be a nice case of EIBTI to me.
>>
>> I would rather call that a default behavior, otherwise every function
>> with arguments that have default
>> values would be nice cases of EIBTI.

If a default value is there, it should be obvious.  In this case, my feeling
was that it wasn't, but thinking about it I don't really see another default,
so +0.

> Agreed, nobody writes "dir ." or "ls .", the implicit argument is obvious.

Well, the interactive shell shouldn't be considered a programming language,
and even if you do, it's hardly Pythonic :)

Georg

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