>>>>> "Steven" == Steven Bethard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Steven> My only fear with the / operator is that we'll end up with
Steven> the same problems we have for using % in string formatting
Steven> -- the order of operations might not be what users expect.
Besides STeVe's example, (1) I think it's logical to expect that
Path('home') / 'and/or'
points to a file named "and/or" in directory "home", not to a file
named "or" in directory "home/and".
(2) Note that '/' is also the path separator used by URIs, which RFC
2396 gives different semantics from Unix. Most of my Python usage to
date has been heavily web-oriented, and I'd have little use for /
unless it follows RFC 2396. By that, I mean that I would want the /
operator to treat its rhs as a relative reference, so the result would
be computed by the algorithm in section 5.2 of that RFC. But this is
not correct (realpath) semantics on Unix.
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