In article <ite8950...@news6.newsguy.com>, Chris Torek <nos...@torek.net> wrote:
> >Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >> Why do you think there's no Path object in the standard library? *wink* > > In article <mailman.16.1308239495.1164.python-l...@python.org> > Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote: > >Because I can't find one in either 2.7 nor 3.2, and every reference I've > >found has indicated that the other Path contenders were too > >all-encompassing. > > What I think Steven D'Aprano is suggesting here is that the general > problem is too hard, and specific solutions too incomplete, to > bother with. > > Your own specific solution might work fine for your case(s), but it > is unlikely to work in general. Note there was quite a bit of discussion some years back about adding Jason Orendorff's Path module to the standard library, a module which had and still has its fans. Ultimately, though, it was vetoed by Guido. http://bugs.python.org/issue1226256 http://wiki.python.org/moin/PathModule -- Ned Deily, n...@acm.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
