On 11/1/06, Georg Brandl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 03:14 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > >One thing is sure -- we urgently need something better than os.path. > > >It functions well but it makes hard-to-read and unpythonic code. > > > > I'm not so sure. The need is not any more "urgent" today than it was 5 > > years ago, when os.path was equally "unpythonic" and unreadable. The > > problem is real but there is absolutely no reason to hurry to a > > premature solution. > > > > I've already recommended Twisted's twisted.python.filepath module as a > > possible basis for the implementation of this feature. I'm sorry I > > don't have the time to pursue that. I'm also sad that nobody else seems > > to have noticed. Twisted's implemenation has an advantage that it > > doesn't seem that these new proposals do, an advantage I would really > > like to see in whatever gets seriously considered for adoption: > > Looking at > <http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/api/twisted.python.filepath.FilePath.html>, > it seems as if FilePath was made to serve a different purpose than what we're > trying to discuss here: > > """ > I am a path on the filesystem that only permits 'downwards' access. > > Instantiate me with a pathname (for example, > FilePath('/home/myuser/public_html')) and I will attempt to only provide > access > to files which reside inside that path. [...] > > The correct way to use me is to instantiate me, and then do ALL filesystem > access through me. > """ > > What a successor to os.path needs is not security, it's a better (more > pythonic, > if you like) interface to the old functionality. >
Then let us discuss that. Is FilePath actually a better interface to the old functionality? Even if it was designed to solve a security problem, it might prove to be an extremely useful general interface. jml _______________________________________________ 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
