[Python-Dev] Path PEP: some comments (original) (raw)
Giovanni Bajo rasky at develer.com
Sun Feb 5 00🔞08 CET 2006
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Phillip J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
- ctime() is documented to be unportable: it has different semantics on UNIX and Windows. I believe the class should abstract from these details. Note that this is the opposite of normal Python policy: Python does not attempt to create cross-platform abstractions, but instead chooses to expose platform differences. The Path class shouldn't abstract this any more than the original *path modules do.
I don't follow. One thing is to provide an interface which totally abstracts from low-level details. Another is to provide a function which holds different results depending on the operating system. I'm fine to have different functions available for different purposes on different platforms, I'm not fine with having a single function which does different things. Do you have any other example?
Giovanni Bajo
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