2018-03-17 7:18 GMT+01:00 Stephen J. Turnbull < turnbull.stephen...@u.tsukuba.ac.jp>:
> Joonas Liik writes: > > > then it might be an acceptable compromise to have yet another... > > "There should be one-- and preferably only one -- obvious way to do it." > > The obvious way is to use the existing stdlib modules. So.... > > > package that just imports os, pathlib, shutil etc and re-exports > > all relevant functions. > > Anybody wanting this can easily do a better job than the stdlib ever > can do -- by writing a package including all the modules they > frequently use and only re-exporting those names that they use, > perhaps with shorter or personally mnemonic aliases (Windows vs. Unix > nomenclature for many shell utilities, for example -- but watch those > builtins like "dir"!) > > Of course, this is horrible programming practice, making for burdens > on reviewers and maintainers. I see the convenience for writing > one-off scripts and perhaps a personal library, but I don't see it as > a core function of the language and its standard library. So, -1 in > the stdlib, and +0 for a base module on PyPI that demonstrates the > principle and individual users could modify to personal taste. > > Steve > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list > Python-ideas@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > Hi Steve, as I wrote previuosly pathlib already contains 17 functions from os and shutil. It seems that the original idea was something like for my idea. Just it not finished yet, With adding the remaining functions it would become a nice and whole thing George
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