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Re: os.path and Path

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In article <ite8950jj3@news6.newsguy.com>,
 Chris Torek <nospam@torek.net> wrote:

> >Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> >> Why do you think there's no Path object in the standard library? *wink*
> 
> In article <mailman.16.1308239495.1164.python-list@python.org>
> Ethan Furman  <ethan@stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> >Because I can't find one in either 2.7 nor 3.2, and every reference I've 
> >found has indicated that the other Path contenders were too 
> >all-encompassing.
> 
> What I think Steven D'Aprano is suggesting here is that the general
> problem is too hard, and specific solutions too incomplete, to
> bother with.
> 
> Your own specific solution might work fine for your case(s), but it
> is unlikely to work in general.

Note there was quite a bit of discussion some years back about adding 
Jason Orendorff's Path module to the standard library, a module which 
had and still has its fans.  Ultimately, though, it was vetoed by Guido.

http://bugs.python.org/issue1226256
http://wiki.python.org/moin/PathModule

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 nad@acm.org

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os.path and Path Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2011-06-15 19:00 -0700
  Re: os.path and Path Laurent Claessens <moky.math@gmail.com> - 2011-06-16 09:03 +0200
    Re: os.path and Path Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-06-16 07:58 +0000
      Re: os.path and Path Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2011-06-16 09:16 -0700
        Re: os.path and Path Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-06-16 16:41 +0000
          Re: os.path and Path Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2011-06-16 10:18 -0700
          Re: os.path and Path Eric Snow <ericsnowcurrently@gmail.com> - 2011-06-16 11:21 -0600
      Re: os.path and Path Christian Heimes <lists@cheimes.de> - 2011-06-16 18:32 +0200
      Re: os.path and Path Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2011-06-16 10:07 -0700
      Re: os.path and Path Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-06-17 11:00 +1000
  Re: os.path and Path Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-06-16 07:14 +0000
    Re: os.path and Path Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2011-06-16 09:05 -0700
      Re: os.path and Path Chris Torek <nospam@torek.net> - 2011-06-17 00:48 +0000
        Re: os.path and Path Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2011-06-16 18:19 -0700
        Re: os.path and Path Ned Deily <nad@acm.org> - 2011-06-16 19:55 -0700
          Re: os.path and Path rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2011-06-16 21:24 -0700

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