[Python-ideas] PEP 428: poll about the joining syntax

[Ryan D Hiebert]

On Oct 8, 2012, at 11:47 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> - `p[q]` joins path q to path p
-1
> - `p + q` joins path q to path p
+1
> - `p / q` joins path q to path p
+0.5
> - `p.join(q)` joins path q to path p
-1, but +1 to p.append(q)

If we want a p.pathjoin method, it would make sense to me for it to work similar to urllib.parse.urljoin, i.e., if the joined path is absolute, have it replace the path, except possibly for the drive on windows. 

I like to follow any parallels to list that make sense.

Ryan