On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 01:45, "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewis.de> wrote:
> > Now that we can reuse os.path.join() (directly for source_from_cache(), > > indirectly through easy algorithmic copying in cache_from_source()) do > > we want to keep the "special" semantics, or can I change it to match > > what ntpath would do when there can be more than one path separator on > > an OS (i.e. not do anything special)? > > This goes back to > > http://codereview.appspot.com/842043/diff/1/3#newcode787 > > where Antoine points out that the code needs to look for altsep. > > He then suggests "keep the right-most of both". I don't think he > literally meant that the right-most separator should then also be > used to separate __pycache__, but only that the right-most of > either SEP or ALTSEP is what separates the module name. > > In any case, Barry apparently took this comment to mean that the > rightmost separator should be preserved. > > So I don't think this is an important feature. > OK, then I'll go back to ntpath.join()/split() semantics of caring on split about altsep but not on join to keep it consistent w/ os.path and what people are used to.
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