Peter Hansen wrote: > Reinhold Birkenfeld wrote: >> Current change: >> >> * Add base() method for converting to str/unicode. > > Would basestring() be a better name? Partly because that seems to be > exactly what it's doing, but more because there are (or used to be?) > other things in Path that used the word "base", such as "basename". > > -1 on that specific name if it could be easily confused with "basename" > types of things.
Right, that was a concern of mine, too. "tobase"? "tostring"? "tobasestring"? Alternative is to set a class attribute "Base" of the Path class. Or export PathBase as a name from the module (but that's not quite useful, because I expect Path to be imported via "from os.path import Path"). Reinhold -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
