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

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sun Oct 7 00:41:01 CEST 2012


Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> I didn't choose / at first because I knew this choice would be quite
> contentious. However, if there happens to be a strong majority in its
> favour, why not.

Count me as +1 on / as a path concatenation operator.

It's very intuitive, IMO, and it would free up indexing
for the purpose of extracting pathname components, which
is a more intuitive use for that as well, I think.

-- 
Greg



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