path.py and directory naming: trailing slash automatic?

[Max Erickson]

"metaperl.mogd at gmail.com" <metaperl.mogd at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm a big fan of path.py. One thing that I think is a good idea
> is for directories to automatically have a slash appended to them
> if it is not automatically added. Eg:
> 
> from path import path
> 
> dir = path('/some/dir')
> 
> x = dir + "file" # should yield /some/dir/file
> 
> 
> I emailed the author of path.py but I think he must be extremely
> busy. It took him 2-3 weeks to answer my first email and it's
> been longer than that for the one I sent regarding this.
> 

just use '/' if that is what you want:

>>> from path import path
>>> d=path('/some/dir')
>>> d / "file"
path(u'/some/dir\\file')
>>> 

If + also did that, it would be more difficult to change the extension 
when renaming a file or whatever.

max