Tony Meyer wrote: > [...] >> Open issues: > [...] >> What about path * 4? > > If you keep the current join meaning of __div__, then assigning any sort of > multiplication meaning to __mul__ would not be a good idea, IMO. It's > natural to expect that __div__ and __mul__ are opposites. I suppose this > means that you could make __mul__ mean split (and f(*tuple) does do > splitting of a sort), but I don't know what splitting by 4 would mean, > necessarily.
Yes. I think I'll not attach any meaning to it. If used, it will have the same meaning as string * 4. > Do people really like using __div__ to mean join? On the python-dev > discussion, Just van Rossum spoke out against it, but there weren't (IIRC) > any other comments, either pro or con. I'm not too happy with it, too, but do we have alternatives? As paths are strings, we can hardly override the '+' operator, so there's not much operators left. Of course, one can use joinwith() if he doesn't like '/'. Reinhold -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
