[Python-ideas] os.path.isparent and os.path.ischild

[Arnaud Delobelle]

On 14 July 2011 14:10, Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> Oleg Broytman <phd at phdru.name> writes:
>
>>    In py3k it was renamed to _destinsrc. It never was documented.
>
> Both of which strongly indicate the intent that it shouldn't be used as
> part of the library API.
>
> So it is disingenuous to suggest that it's already in the standard
> library; it's nice that there's an implementation there, but it's
> clearly being moved further from intended use.
>
> Who made that change? Presumably their opinion on this matter is
> opposite to the proponents of the functionality in this thread. Can
> someone ask them to comment in this thread as to their rationale?

It's easy to find out who made the change:

http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/0ab36796dd79

-- 
Arnaud