On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 9:49 PM Matt Wozniski <godlyg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I suggest adding an "exist_ok" argument to all of these, with > > the default being "True" for backwards-compatibility. This argument name > > is already in use elsewhere in pathlib. If this is False and the file is > > not present, a "FileNotFoundError" is raised. > > For Path.mkdir, exist_ok=True inhibits an error if a directory already > exists. > You're proposing that for Path.is_dir, exist_ok=True should inhibit an > error if > the directory does not exist. > > A parameter to enable that behavior sounds reasonable to me, but it > definitely > shouldn't have the name "exist_ok"; it does the opposite of what exist_ok > does. > Good point, perhaps "missing_ok" then.
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