Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote: > > If a URI class implemented the same methods, it would be something of a > > question whether uri.joinpath('/foo/bar', 'baz') would return '/foo/baz' > > (and urlparse.urljoin would) or '/foo/bar/baz' (as os.path.join does). > > I assume it would be be the latter, and urljoin would be a different > > method, maybe something novel like "urljoin". > > I honestly don't understand the usefulness of join('/foo/bar', 'baz') > ever returning '/foo/baz' instead of '/foo/bar/baz'. How would the > former be of any use?
it's how URL:s are joined, as noted in the paragraph you replied to (a "baz" link on the page "/foo/bar" refers to "/foo/baz", not "/foo/bar/baz") </F> _______________________________________________ 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