Reinhold Birkenfeld wrote: > Tony Meyer wrote: >>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 '/'.
I've used the path module pretty extensively and always use joinpath(). Personally, I'm -0 on __div__, but I suppose if anyone here claimed to have used in the past, rather than it just being some novelty that might be a good idea, that would be good enough for keeping it. -- Michael Hoffman -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
