[Python-Dev] Fwd: I was just thinking that os.path could use some love...

2013-01-30 Thread Guido van Rossum
Thoughts on os.path? What happened to the idea of a new path object? --Guido -- Forwarded message -- From: Talin viri...@gmail.com Date: Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 12:34 PM Subject: Re: I was just thinking that os.path could use some love... To: Guido van Rossum gu...@python.org On

Re: [Python-Dev] Fwd: I was just thinking that os.path could use some love...

2013-01-30 Thread Victor Stinner
Thoughts on os.path? What happened to the idea of a new path object? I don't know if it's related, but there are two new interesting projects: pathlib and walkdir. http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pathlib https://pathlib.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ http://pypi.python.org/pypi/walkdir

Re: [Python-Dev] Fwd: I was just thinking that os.path could use some love...

2013-01-30 Thread R. David Murray
http://bugs.python.org/issue11344 evolved into a patch for 'splitpath', similar to splitall. Antoine's pathlib (PEP 428) is also mentioned at the end, which is probably what Guido is thinking of. --David On Wed, 30 Jan 2013 13:26:08 -0800, Guido van Rossum gu...@python.org wrote: Thoughts on

Re: [Python-Dev] Fwd: I was just thinking that os.path could use some love...

2013-01-30 Thread Skip Montanaro
Thoughts on os.path? What happened to the idea of a new path object? You old pot stirrer! wink I wonder about this from time-to-time as well, so was just interested enough to wander over to PyPI and see what I could dig up. There are a couple path module/package implementations on PyPI.

Re: [Python-Dev] Fwd: I was just thinking that os.path could use some love...

2013-01-30 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 30Jan2013 13:26, Guido van Rossum gu...@python.org wrote: | Thoughts on os.path? What happened to the idea of a new path object? [...] | From: Talin viri...@gmail.com [...] | On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Guido van Rossum gu...@python.org wrote: | Hmm... Mind if I just forward to