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

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Sat, 6 Oct 2012 16:40:49 +0400
Oleg Broytman <phd at phdru.name> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 06, 2012 at 04:26:42PM +0400, Oleg Broytman <phd at phdru.name> wrote:
> > newpath = path.with_drive('C:')
> > newpath = path.with_name('newname')
> > newpath = path.with_ext('.zip')
> 
>    BTW, I think having these three -- replacing drive, name and extension --
> is enough.

What is the point of replacing the drive?

Replacing the name is already trivial: path.parent()[newname]

So we only need to replace the "basename" and the extension (I think
I'm ok with the "basename" terminology now :-)).

Regards

Antoine.


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