John J Lee wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, Tony Meyer wrote:
> [...]
> > Well, if you include the much larger discussion on python-list,
> > people (including me) have said that removing __div__ is a good
> > idea. If it's included in the PEP, please at least include a
> > justification and cover the problems with it. The vast majority of
> > people (at least at the time) were either +0 or -0, not +1. +0's are
> > not justification for including something.
>
> <bikeshed>
>
> FWLIW, I'm definitely +1 on using / as a path join operator.
My only fear with the / operator is that we'll end up with the same
problems we have for using % in string formatting -- the order of
operations might not be what users expect. Since join is conceptually
an addition-like operator, I would expect:
Path('home') / 'a' * 5
to give me:
home/aaaaa
If I understand it right, it would actually give me something like:
home/ahome/ahome/ahome/ahome/a
I don't want to claim this is the most common use case, but I've
certainly seen auto-generated paths that look like 'a' * 20, and it
would be a pity if using the / operator for Path objects did the wrong
thing by default here...
STeVe
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--- Bucky Katt, Get Fuzzy
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