Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com>: > IMO, beginners shouldn't be using the os module.
Hard to know. Depends on what the beginner wants to accomplish. > I always found the first sentence to be a bit funny: > > This module provides a portable way of using operating system > dependent functionality. > > I understand whay they're tying to say, but I always found it amusing > to say you're going to provide a portable way to do something > non-portable. One of the best things in Python is that it has exposed the operating system to the application programmer. I don't think a programming language should abstract the operating system away. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
