[Python-ideas] PEP 428 - object-oriented filesystem paths

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Antoine Pitrou writes:

 > ``relative()`` returns a new relative path by stripping the drive and root::

Does this have use cases so common that it deserves a convenience
method?  I would expect "relative" to require an argument.  (Ie, I
would expect it to have the semantics of "relative_to".)  Or is the
issue that you can't count on PureNTPath(p).relative_to('C:\\') to
DTRT?

Maybe the