[Python-3000] cleaning up *path.py code duplication (original) (raw)

Jack Diederich jackdied at jackdied.com
Sat Aug 26 02:19:23 CEST 2006


While checking find() uses in the stdlib I noticed that the various path modules have duplicate code and docstrings for some generic path manipulations. Delightfully they even have different implementations and docstrings for identical functions. splitext() is a great bad example - os2emxpath.splitext() builds up strings by doing char-by-char concatenations where everyone else uses find() + slice.

If there are no objections I'll move these into a module named genericpath.py and change the others to do

from genericpath import func1, func2, funcN

where applicable.

So, any objections? Should it be a 2.6 backport too?

-Jack



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