[Python-Dev] Adding the 'path' module (was Re: Some RFE for review)

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 02:31 PM 6/26/2005 -0500, Skip Montanaro wrote:
>     Phillip> It has many ways to do the same thing, and many of its property
>     Phillip> and method names are confusing because they either do the same
>     Phillip> thing as a standard function, but have a different name (like
>     Phillip> the 'parent' property that is os.path.dirname in disguise), or
>     Phillip> they have the same name as a standard function but do something
>     Phillip> different (like the 'listdir()' method that returns full paths
>     Phillip> rather than just filenames).
>
>To the extent that the path module tries to provide a uniform abstraction
>that's not saddled with a particular way of doing things (e.g., the Unix way
>or the Windows way), I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing.

I'm confused by your statements.  First, I didn't notice the path module 
providing any OS-abstractions that aren't already provided by 
os.path.  Second, using inconsistent and confusing names is pretty much 
always a bad thing.  :)