[Python-Dev] Re: os.path.commonprefix breakage

Fred L. Drake, Jr. fdrake@beopen.com
Thu, 17 Aug 2000 22:38:06 -0400 (EDT)


Greg Ewing writes:
 > Gordon:
 > 
 > > os.chdir(os.pardir)
 > 
 > Ah, I missed that somehow. Probably I was looking in os.path
 > instead of os.
 > 
 > Shouldn't everything to do with pathname semantics be in os.path?

  Should be, yes.  I'd vote that curdir, pardir, sep, altsep, and
pathsep be added to the *path modules, and os could pick them up from
there.


  -Fred

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Fred L. Drake, Jr.  <fdrake at beopen.com>
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