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does trolling really make that much fun? * rantingrick <rantingr...@gmail.com> [2011-07-29 19:25]: > > -------------------------------------------------- > Overview of Problems: > -------------------------------------------------- > > * Too many methods exported. > * Poor choice of method names. > * Non public classes/methods exported! > * Duplicated functionality. > > -------------------------------------------------- > Proposed new functionality: > -------------------------------------------------- > > * New path module will ONLY support one path sep! There is NO reason > to support more than one. When we support more than one path sep we > help to propagate multiplicity.We should only support the slash and > NOT the backslash across ALL OS's since the slash is more widely > accepted. If an OS does not have the capability to support only the > slash then that OS is not worthy of a Python builtin module. The users > of such OS will be responsible for managing their OWN os_legacy.path > module. We are moving forward. Those who wish to wallow in the past > will be left behind. > > * Introduce a new method named "partition" which (along with string > splitting methods) will replace the six methods "basename", "dirname", > "split", "splitdrive", "splitunc", "splittext". The method will return > a tuple of the path split into four parts: (drive, path, filename, > extension). This is the ONLY splitting method this module needs. All > other splits can use string methods. > > -------------------------------------------------- > Expose of the Warts of current module: > -------------------------------------------------- > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > 1. Too many methods > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Follows is a list of what to keep and what to cull: > > + abspath > + altsep > - basename --> path.partition[-2] > + commonprefix > + curdir > + defpath > + devnull > - dirname --> os.path.join(drive,path) > + exists > + expanduser > + expandvars > + extsep > - genericpath --> should be private! > + getatime > + getctime > + getmtime > + getsize > + isabs > + isdir > + isfile > + islink > + ismount > + join > - lexists --> duplicate! > - normcase --> path = path.lower() > - normpath --> should not need this! > - os --> should be private! > + pardir > + pathsep > + realpath > + relpath > + sep > - split --> path.rsplit('/', 1) > - splitdrive --> path.split(':', 1) > - splitext --> path.rsplit('.') > - splitunc --> Unix specific! > - stat --> should be private! > + supports_unicode_filenames --> windows specific! > - sys --> should be private! > + walk > - warnings --> should be private! > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > 2. Poor Name Choices: > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > * basename --> should be: filename > * split --> split what? > * splitext --> Wow, informative! > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > 3. Non Public Names Exposed! > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > * genericpath > * os > * stat > * sys > * warnings > > > Note: i did not check the Unix version of os.path for this. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > 4. Duplicated functionality. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > >>> os.path.lexists.__doc__ > 'Test whether a path exists. Returns False for broken symbolic links' > >>> os.path.exists.__doc__ > 'Test whether a path exists. Returns False for broken symbolic links' > > Should have been one method: > >>> os.path.exists(path, ignoreSymLnks=False) > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- Michael Poeltl Computational Materials Physics voice: +43-1-4277-51409 Univ. Wien, Sensengasse 8/12 fax: +43-1-4277-9514 (or 9513) A-1090 Wien, AUSTRIA cmp.mpi.univie.ac.at -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list