On Sun, May 6, 2018 at 9:30 PM, Mike Miller <python-id...@mgmiller.net>
wrote:
> On 2018-05-06 19:13, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>
>> Specifically, the ones I'd have in mind would be:
>>
>> - dirname (aka os.path.dirname)
>> - joinpath (aka os.path.join)
>> - abspath (aka os.path.abspath)
>>
> Yes, I end up importing those in most scripts currently. Just "join" has
> worked fine, although I could imagine someone getting confused about it.
Our homebuilt pre-pathlib package has an 'abs_path' parameter in join, so
that could easily eliminate the abspath function itself:
>>> joinpath('.', abs_path=True)
<cwd>
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