In defence of the two-namespace rule

[Paul Foley]

On Fri, 21 Jan 2000 17:14:58 +0000, Edward Welbourne wrote:

> As to passing the default through globals, the problem then gets
> complicated by the fact that, of course, that dialog gets used by loads
> of bits of code, so someone writes this helper:

> def relativeto(root):
>     def result(*fragments, r=root):
>         return apply(os.path.join, (r,) + fragments)
>     return result

You don't need the (*args, var=...) thing.  You can do this, instead:

  class relativeto:
      def __init__(self, root):
         self.root = root
      def __call__(self, *fragments):
         return apply(os.path.join, (self.root,)+fragments)

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