[issue1828] Renaming platform path modules

Guido van Rossum report at bugs.python.org
Tue Jan 15 02:16:17 CET 2008


Guido van Rossum added the comment:

> Since they are implementation details, they
> should have a "_" prepended to their names.

No, they are not, and they should not.

There are legitimate use cases for importing these directly.  E.g. I
could be on a Windows box but have a desire to manipulate posix paths.

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