[Python-ideas] PEP 428: poll about the joining syntax

[Christian Heimes]

Am 08.10.2012 21:15, schrieb Nick Coghlan:
> My own current preference is to take "p.joinpath(q)" straight from
> path.py (https://github.com/jaraco/path.py/blob/master/path.py#L236).
[...]
> I don't *love* joinpath as a name, I just don't actively dislike it
> the way I do the four presented options (and it has the virtue of the
> path.py precedent).

I dislike + and [] because I find the result too surprising. If I'd be
forced to choose between +, / and [] then I would go for / as it looks
kinda like a path.

+1 for p.joinpath(*args). It's really a must have feature. The name is
debatable, though.

+0 for p / sub

-1 for p + sub and p[sub]

Christian