Michael Hoffman wrote: > Reinhold Birkenfeld wrote: > >> * __iter__() iterates over the parts(). >> * the following methods raise NotImplemented: >> capitalize, expandtabs, join, splitlines, title, zfill > > Why? They *are* implemented. I do not understand this desire to wantonly > break basestring compatiblity for the sake of breaking compatibility. > > Once you break compatibility with basestring you can no longer use a > path anywhere that you could have used a str or unicode before. With > compatibility broken, the only possible supported way of passing paths > to third-party functions will be to cast the path with > path.__bases__[0](mypath) before passing it anywhere else. You can't > even use str() because you don't know what the base class of the path > is. What a pain. > > From the original path.py documentation: > > """ > os.path.join doesn't map to path.join(), because there's a string method > with that name. Instead it's path.joinpath(). This is a nuisance, but > changing the semantics of base class methods is worse. (I know, I tried > it.) The same goes for split(). > """ > > It ain't broke. Please stop breaking it.
Okay. While a path has its clear use cases and those don't need above methods, it may be that some brain-dead functions needs them. Reinhold -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
