[Python-Dev] The path module PEP (original) (raw)

Charles Cazabon python at discworld.dyndns.org
Tue Jan 24 21:56:51 CET 2006

BJörn Lindqvist <bjourne at gmail.com> wrote:

1. Make all python files in the a directory executable: [...] ==> for f in Path('/usr/home/guido/bin'): f.chmod(0755)

Iterating over a path string to read the contents of the directory possibly pointed to by that string seems like "magic implicit" behaviour. Perhaps making it a method explicitly returning an iterator would by more Pythonic?

for f in Path(...).readDir():

4. Splitting a path into directory and filename: [...] Path("/path/to/foo/bar.txt").splitpath()

Good. But the opposite isn't done similarly:

6. Create directory paths: [...] Path("foo") / "bar" / "baz"

Using "/" as "path concatenation operator" seems like un-Pythonic magic as well (while "+" would be an improvement, it's still not a large one). I would think 

Path('foo').appendparts('bar', 'baz')

or similar would be more readable and obvious.

Charles

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