[Python-Dev] The path module PEP

[Aaron Bingham]

Stefan Rank wrote:

>on 26.01.2006 14:15 Paul Moore said the following:
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>>Arguably, Path objects should always maintain an absolute path - there
>>should be no such thing as a relative Path. So you would have
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>you realise that one might need and/or want to represent a relative path?
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Of course, but it seems to me a relative path is a different type from 
an absolute path, in the same way that a timedelta is different from a 
datetime.

For example:

 * You can't open a relative path without reference to some absolute 
path (possibly the cwd).
 * You can't join two absolute paths, but you can join a relative path 
to another relative path, or to an absolute path.

Cheers,

Aaron

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Aaron Bingham
Senior Software Engineer
Cenix BioScience GmbH
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