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Subject: Re: [path-PEP] Path inherits from basestring again
From: Reinhold Birkenfeld <reinhold-birkenfeld-nospam () wolke7 ! net>
Date: 2005-08-01 7:51:53
Message-ID: 3l62auF10t4i5U1 () individual ! net
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phil hunt wrote:
> On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 09:48:45 +0200, Reinhold Birkenfeld <reinhold-birkenfeld-nospam@wolke7.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> An improvement to what? To how the class is implemented, or to how
>>> it is used?
>>
>>No, the second function is cleaner and more readable than the first,
>>IMHO.
>
> True, but the first function, at all of seven lines, is hardly
> complicated. I mean, if anyone couldn't understand it, they'd never
> make a programmer.
>
>>> If you mean the former, yes is it, due to the os.path module not
>>> providing a function that does this.
>>>
>>> If you mean the latter, I disagree, because I would then have to
>>> call it with something like:
>>>
>>> pn = normalizePath(Path(p), q)
>>
>>That's easily helped by s/tp = p/tp = Path(p)/.
>
> I have no idea what that comment means.
That's short for "replace 'tp = p' by 'tp = Path(p)". sed-lingo ;)
Reinhold
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