Phillip> It has many ways to do the same thing, and many of its property
Phillip> and method names are confusing because they either do the same
Phillip> thing as a standard function, but have a different name (like
Phillip> the 'parent' property that is os.path.dirname in disguise), or
Phillip> they have the same name as a standard function but do something
Phillip> different (like the 'listdir()' method that returns full paths
Phillip> rather than just filenames).
To the extent that the path module tries to provide a uniform abstraction
that's not saddled with a particular way of doing things (e.g., the Unix way
or the Windows way), I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing.
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