Antoine Pietri added the comment: > I think that `absolute` method should call `expanduser` and `expandvars` (do > you plan to include it?) automatically. This should be optional (via default > arguments: `expanduser=True, expandvars=True`.
I think it shouldn't. (Or shouldn't be set to True by default anyway). absolute() method resolves symlinks, and it would make no sense to expand tildes and vars, which are purely a "shell syntax". . and .. are real things in the filesystem, ~ is just a notation commonly used (since it's in the SCL spec), but it's not *part* of the path, that's why you can totally have a valid ~ file. Making absolute() expand tildes would be illogic, unintuitive and unpythonic. (+1 for the .expanduser() patch though, I went here after searching for this feature in the docs). ---------- nosy: +seirl _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue19776> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
