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

[Greg Ewing]

Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> Personally, I cringe everytime I have to type
> `os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(...)))` to go two
> directories upwards of a given path. Compare, with, say:
> 
>>>>p = Path('/a/b/c/d')
>>>>p.parent(2)

Or if we allow slicing,

    p[:-2]

-- 
Greg