On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 3:26 AM Nick Coghlan wrote:
> On 14 March 2018 at 15:20, Chris Billington
> wrote:
>>
>> I wonder if there's any reason something like this shouldn't be built
>> into Python's default import system.
>>
>
> There are two main challenges with enforcing such a check, one aff
On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 10:53 PM, Greg Ewing
wrote:
>
> The functions in os are thin wrappers around system calls,
>
exactly -- and this is a very old legacy from way back. Modern Python users
should not have to concern themselves with whether something they want to
do is essentially a system ca
On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 9:59 AM, Terry Reedy wrote:
> I am convinced that *some* people, especially but not limited to newbies,
> find the current situation confusing and less than optimal. I am also
> pretty convinced that the idea of dumping a copy of everything into pathlib
> is the wrong sol
On Sun, 18 Mar 2018 at 20:37 Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 4:58 AM, George Fischhof
> wrote:
> > Of course several details could be put into it, but I think it would
> better
> > to let the developers decide the details, because they know the
> environment
> > and the possibil
On 2018-03-18 10:55, Paul Moore wrote:
Should Path() have methods to access all file operations?
No, (Counterexample, having a Path operation to set Windows ACLs for a path).
Agreed, not a big fan of everything filesystem-related in pathlib, simply
because it doesn't read well. Having them
On 3/19/2018 11:31 AM, Rhodri James wrote:
On 18/03/18 11:58, George Fischhof wrote:
it seems for me that the welcoming of this proposal is rather positive
than
not.
I think you may have observer bias :-)
Or, as often happens, George is making too much of a biased sample of
opinions -- tho
On 18/03/18 11:58, George Fischhof wrote:
it seems for me that the welcoming of this proposal is rather positive than
not.
I think you may have observer bias :-)
As far as I am concerned you have yet to make a convincing case that
there is a problem, never mind that your solution is appropria
On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 01:36:31PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano writes:
>
> > Indeed. I've been considering quantiles and quartiles for a long time,
> > and I've found at least ten different definitions for quantiles and
> > sixteen for quartiles.
> I'd like to see you
Here's a comparison table of os, os.path, shutil, pathlib, and path.py.
The full version is at
https://github.com/westurner/pyfilemods (README.rst)
and at
https://westurner.github.io/pyfilemods.
I ran a few set intersections and went ahead and
wrote a report to compare function/method signatures
On 03/19/18 09:17, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Nathaniel Smith writes:
> Similarly, it's hard to explain why we have Path.mkdir but not
> Path.makedirs
So what? Let's fix that. As you propose:
> (maybe it should be Path.mkdir(include_parents=True)
> is fine, although that default seems a
Jason Maldonis writes:
> So we have two "high-level" libraries (pathlib and shutil)
pathlib is currently "low-level" as I understand the word. The only
complex things it does are resolving and globbing, which are
reasonable things to do with a Path's target object. Everything else
is either a
Nathaniel Smith writes:
> On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 10:15 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull
> wrote:
> > (5) perform operations on several objects denoted by Paths at once
> > (copy and its multiple operand variants),
>
> Sure it does: Path.rename and Path.replace.
I was very careful about the sem
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