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

John J Lee jjl at pobox.com
Wed Jan 25 22:01:21 CET 2006


On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Ian Bicking wrote: [...]

Losing .open() would make it much harder for anyone wanting to write, say, a URI library that implements the Path API. [...]

Why? Could you expand a bit?

What's wrong with urlopen(filesystem_path_instance) ?

John



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