On 6/28/05, Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > AFAICT, the only unresolved issue outstanding is a compromise or > Pronouncement regarding the atime/ctime/mtime members' datatype. This is > assuming, of course, that making the "empty path" be os.curdir doesn't > receive any objections, and that nobody strongly prefers 'path.fromcwd()' > over 'path.cwd()' as the alternate constructor name. > > Apart from these fairly minor issues, there is a very short to-do list, > small enough to do an implementation patch in an evening or > two. Documentation might take a similar amount of time after that; mostly > it'll be copy-paste from the existing os.path docs, though.
While we'ew discussing outstanding issues: In a related discussion of the path module on c.l.py, Thomas Heller pointed out that the path module doesn't correctly handle unicode paths: | I have never used the path module before, although I've heard good | things about it. But, it seems to have problems with unicode pathnames, | at least on windows: | | C:\>mkdir späm | | C:\späm>py24 | Python 2.4.1 (#65, Mar 30 2005, 09:13:57) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 | Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. | >>> from path import path | >>> path.getcwd() | | Traceback (most recent call last): | File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? | File "C:\TSS5\components\_Pythonlib\path.py", line 97, in getcwd | return path(os.getcwd()) | UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe4 in position 5: ordinal not in range(128) He suggests a possible fix in his message: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2005-June/287372.html http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/b3795a2a0c52b93f _______________________________________________ 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
