On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 4:59 AM Alex Hall <alex.moj...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 1:42 PM Bernardo Sulzbach < > berna...@bernardosulzbach.com> wrote: > >> ... I would expect len(p) to be the "depth" of the path, which doesn't >> make a lot of sense if it is not an absolute path. >> > > I agree. I expect iteration, indexing, and length to refer to parts, not > characters. In particular I'm a bit disappointed that `path[-1]` isn't > equal to `path.name`, especially because finding `path.name` was tricky - > at first I guessed path.basename (doesn't exist) and path.stem (close, but > wrong). Can we implement that instead? > +1 on that! I can't say I have better names to suggest, but I find it remarkably difficult to figure out how to get the parts of a Path that I want path[:-1] would really hand, too, and presumably come along with any indexing. -CHB -- Christopher Barker, PhD Python Language Consulting - Teaching - Scientific Software Development - Desktop GUI and Web Development - wxPython, numpy, scipy, Cython
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