On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, Phillip J. Eby wrote: > At 08:19 PM 6/26/2005 +0100, Michael Hoffman wrote: >> On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, Phillip J. Eby wrote: >> >>> * drop getcwd(); it makes no sense on a path instance >> >> Personally I use path.getcwd() as a class method all the time. It >> makes as much sense as fromkeys() does on a dict instance, which is >> technically possible but non-sensical. > > It's also duplication with os.path; I'm -1 on creating a new staticmethod > for it.
os.getcwd() returns a string, but path.getcwd() returns a new path object. Almost everything in path is a duplication of os.path--the difference is that the path methods start and end with path objects. -- Michael Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> European Bioinformatics Institute _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
