Mike Orr wrote:
> My latest idea is something like this:
>
> BEGIN
> class Path(unicode):
> """Pathname-manipulation methods."""
> pathlib = os.path # Subclass can specify (posix|nt|mac)path.
> safe_args_only = False# Glyph can set this to True in a subclass.
>
I
On 11/7/06, Talin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Mike Orr wrote:
> > My latest idea is something like this:
> >
> > BEGIN
> > class Path(unicode):
> > """Pathname-manipulation methods."""
> > pathlib = os.path # Subclass can specify
> > (posix|nt|mac)path.
> > safe_args
How do you convert an absolute path anyway?
PosixPath(NTPath("C:\winnt\system")) => ??
NTPath(PosixPath("/mnt/cdrom") => ??
You can convert them to "/winnt/system" and "\mnt\cdrom", but what's
the point? They won't exist anyway.
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Mike Orr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Talin wrote:
> I'm a little confused here about the model of how platform-specific and
> application-specific formats are represented. Is it the case that the
> creation function converts the platform-specific path into a generic,
> universal path object, or does it create a platform-specific p
On 11/7/06, Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> .abspath()
> >>>
> >>>I've always thought this was a strange function. To be honest, I'd
> >>>rather explicitly pass in the cwd().
> >>
> >>I use it; it's convenient. The method name could be improved.
>
> It does violate the constraint o
