[Python-3000] Path Reform: Get the ball rolling

Oleg Broytmann phd at phd.pp.ru
Wed Nov 1 15:10:11 CET 2006


On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 08:03:55AM -0600, Michael Urman wrote:
> >        p = os.path.normpath( os.path.join( __file__, "../..", "lib" ) )
> 
> Shouldn't an example avoid using the path separator directly within a
> string literal?
> 
>     p = path.normpath(path.join(__file__, "..", "..", "lib"))

   It also should use platform-independent constants:

p = path.normpath(path.join(__file__, os.pardir, os.pardir, "lib"))

Oleg.
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