[Python-Dev] mkdir -p in python (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Jul 21 02:27:07 CEST 2010


岳帅杰 wrote:

Sorry, I don't know what is the "no constant arguments" guideline refers to. Could you give me some more explanation?

It's a rule of thumb that Guido says he uses when designing an API. If in the majority of use cases for a proposed function, one of its arguments would always be a constant that chooses between two or more different behaviours, then it would probably be better to have separate functions for each of the behaviours.

-- Greg



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