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

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Tue Oct 9 07:41:46 CEST 2012


Antoine Pitrou wrote:

> But you really want a short method name, otherwise it's better to have
> a dedicated operator.  joinpath() definitely doesn't cut it, IMO.

I agree, it's far too longwinded. It would clutter your code
just as badly as using os.path.join() all over the place does
now, but without the option of aliasing it to a shorter name.

-- 
Greg



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