NickC wrote: > [Re: alternatives to overloading '/'] > > Is there a reason the Path constructor is limited to a single argument? > If it allowed multiple arguments, the following would seem very > straightforward: > > p = Path(somePath, user.getFolder(), 'archive', oldPath + ".bak")
That's a quite good idea. Thanks! > I'm usually not much of a purist, but C++ has convinced me that > overloading an operator to mean something entirely unrelated to its > mathematical meaning can be very unwise. It's much the same as with @ decorators. Those who have used them much don't object to the syntax any more. Reinhold -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list