pathlib

[DL Neil]

On 1/10/19 6:13 AM, Dan Sommers wrote:
> On 9/30/19 12:51 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 1, 2019 at 1:51 AM Dan Sommers
...

> All I'm doing is defending the OP, who was surprised that
> renaming a file *using a Path instance* didn't reflect that
> operation *in that Path instance*.  I believe that such a
> surprise is reasonable; others apparently don't.
> 
> Yes, there are a lot of reasons that it is the way it is, and a
> lot of reasons not to change it now.  I get that.  If the OP is
> still here, then I'd like to think that the OP also gets that.


The OP is still 'here' - has been asleep = lazy toad!

Thank you. Yes, that is a reasonable summary. Yes it did catch me by 
surprise - that I couldn't rely upon the instance to reflect 'reality' 
(IMHO).

I see there is a different point-of-view. To adjust my mind-set and 
properly appreciate the discussion, I'd like to re-read the docs with 
that in-mind, first...
-- 
Regards =dn