[Python-ideas] pathlib suggestions

[Thomas Kluyver]

On Wed, Jan 25, 2017, at 03:33 PM, Todd wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 10:18 AM, Petr Viktorin
> <encukou at gmail.com> wrote:
>> But what if the .tar.gz file is called "spam-4.2.5-final.tar.gz"?

>>  Existing tools like glob and endswith() can deal with the ".tar.gz"
>>  extension reliably, but "fullsuffix" would, arguably, not give the
>>  answers you want.
> 

> 

> I wouldn't use it in that situation. 



You might not, but it seems like an attractive nuisance. You can't
reliably use it as a test for  .tar.gz files, but it would be easy to
think that you can and write buggy code using it. And I can't currently
think of a general example where it would be useful.


I thought about suggesting a 'hassuffix' method, but it doesn't pass the
'one way to do it' test when you can do:


p.name.endswith('.tar.gz')


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