[Python-ideas] os.listdir with current working directory as default

[Georg Brandl]

Tarek Ziadé schrieb:
> On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 1:16 AM, Georg Brandl <g.brandl-hi6Y0CQ0nG0 at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> Antoine Pitrou schrieb:
>>> Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at ...> writes:
>>>>
>>>> A very small change: what about making the path argument optional for
>>>> os.listdir ? and use the current working directory if
>>>> not provided.
>>>
>>> Disagreed. If you want the current directory, you just have to use ".".
>>
>> or os.curdir to be precise :)
> 
> yes, same question then, make these equivalent:
> 
> os.listdir(os.curdir)  <-> os.listdir()

This seems to be a nice case of EIBTI to me.

Georg

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