On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 12:51 +1300, Tony Meyer wrote: > [John J Lee] > > But it's a very readable way to write a common operation. Perhaps one > > reason the discrepancy you point out doesn't bother me is that > > division is > > the least-used of the +-*/ arithmetic operations. > > Do you have evidence to back that up? It seems a strange claim. > Outside of doing 'maths-y' work, I would think I'd use + most (but > for strings), then / (for percentages).
I haven't followed the entire thread (I'll try to find time to catch up)
but while I think using __div__ to mean path concatenation is cute, I'm
not sure I'd like to see it all over the place. It does seem awfully
"FAST" ("facinating and stomach turning" to use a term from years ago).
What I don't like about os.path.join() having to import os and having to
type all those characters over and over again. What I /like/ about
os.path.join is that you can give it a bunch of path components and have
it return the correctly joined path, e.g. os.path.join('a, 'b', 'c').
That seems more efficient than having to create a bunch of intermediate
objects.
All in all, I'd have to say I'm -0 on __div__ for path concatenation.
-Barry
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