"John Roth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Reinhold Birkenfeld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > He said, > > > > """ > > Whoa! Do we really need a completely different mechanism for doing the > > same stuff we can already do? The path module seems mostly useful for > > folks coming from Java who are used to the Java Path class. With the > > massive duplication of functionality we should also consider what to > > recommend for the future: will the old os.path module be deprecated, > > or are we going to maintain both alternatives forever? (And what about > > all the duplication with the os module itself, like the cwd() > > constructor?) Remember TOOWTDI. > > """ > > Read literally, this says (at least to me) "I don't want to fix it because > I don't think it's broke."
Or rather "I prefer a single existing mediocre solution than two solutions (even if the second was better)". George -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list