PRE-PEP: new Path class

Gerrit Holl gerrit at nl.linux.org
Thu Jan 8 08:25:07 EST 2004


Michael Chermside wrote:
> I agree... paths should be immutable.
> 
> Instead of .normalize_inplace() which changes the behavior of the
> Path, how about .get_normalized_string() (please find a better name)
> which allows access to the normalized version without mutating the
> Path object? (Or perhaps it should be .get_normalized_Path()... I'm
> not sure.)

If we make it immutable, we can simply do path.normalize(), which
returns the normalized path. Or am I overlooking something?

yours,
Gerrit.

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