[Python-Dev] Re: os.path.commonprefix breakage (original) (raw)

Moshe Zadka Moshe Zadka moshez@math.huji.ac.il
Fri, 18 Aug 2000 09:12:39 +0300 (IDT)

On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Greg Ewing wrote:

Gordon:

> os.chdir(os.pardir) Ah, I missed that somehow. Probably I was looking in os.path instead of os. Shouldn't everything to do with pathname semantics be in os.path?

Nope, os.path is just for "abstract pathname algebra". Anything dealing with real paths on a real machine belongs elsewhere (os, probably)

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