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

[Reinhold Birkenfeld]

Michael Hoffman wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> 
>> At 08:19 PM 6/26/2005 +0100, Michael Hoffman wrote:
>>> On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
>>>
>>>> * drop getcwd(); it makes no sense on a path instance
>>>
>>> Personally I use path.getcwd() as a class method all the time. It
>>> makes as much sense as fromkeys() does on a dict instance, which is
>>> technically possible but non-sensical.
>>
>> It's also duplication with os.path; I'm -1 on creating a new staticmethod
>> for it.
> 
> os.getcwd() returns a string, but path.getcwd() returns a new path
> object. Almost everything in path is a duplication of os.path--the
> difference is that the path methods start and end with path objects.

+1.

Reinhold

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