New submission from Muhammad Hallaj Subery: I think the default behavior of os.path.join() when None is passed as the first argument should be to translate it to '' by default.
>>> import os >>> os.path.join(None, 'somewhere') 'somewhere' vs the current >>> import os >>> os.path.join(None, 'somewhere') Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/posixpath.py", line 68, in join elif path == '' or path.endswith('/'): AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'endswith' ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 185316 nosy: hallaj priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: os.path.join() converts None to '' by default type: enhancement versions: Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2, Python 3.3, Python 3.4, Python 3.5 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue17556> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com