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

Michael Hoffman hoffman at ebi.ac.uk
Wed Jan 25 12:36:15 CET 2006

[Ian Bickling]

I'm personally +1 on /. I think people who think it is confusing are giving a knee-jerk reaction. It's very easy to tell the difference between file-related code and math-related code, and / is currently only used for math. In contrast, + is used for concatenation and addition, and these are far more ambiguous from context -- but still it doesn't cause that many problems.

I was initially -0 on / but I have found it quite useful and a lot simpler than a lot of joinpath()s over time.

So +1 on / for me.

Michael Hoffman <hoffman at ebi.ac.uk> European Bioinformatics Institute

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