On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 17:33:51 +0200, Reinhold Birkenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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"? -1 >"tostring"? +1 >"tobasestring"? -0 > >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 Regards, Bengt Richter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
