[issue11344] Add height argument to os.path.dirname()

[R. David Murray]

R. David Murray <rdmurray at bitdance.com> added the comment:

No, it isn't a design principle.  My point was that unix hasn't found it useful to add a level option to the dirname API.

I don't know that I personally have ever had occasion to peel off more than one directory level without also wanting to do something with the intermediate results, so perhaps I am not a good judge of how useful this would be.

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