Antoine Pitrou <anto...@python.org> writes: > Le 06/08/2014 20:50, Alexander Belopolsky a écrit : > > There are many interfaces where trailing slash is significant. […] > > Loosing it when passing path strings through pathlib.Path() may be a > > source of bugs. > > pathlib is generally concerned with filesystem operations written in > Python, not arbitrary third-party tools.
The operating system shell is more than an “arbitrary third-party tool”, though; it preserves paths, and handles invoking commands. You seem to be saying that ‘pathlib’ is not intended to be helpful for constructing a shell command. Will its documentation warn that is so? > Also it is probably easy to append the trailing slash in your > command-line invocation, if so desired. The trouble is that one can desire it, and construct a path knowing that the presence or absence of a trailing slash has semantic significance; and then have it unaccountably altered by the pathlib.Path code. This is worse than preserving the semantic value. -- \ “But Marge, what if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we | `\ just make God madder and madder.” —Homer, _The Simpsons_ | _o__) | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
