[Python-Dev] Path PEP and the division operator (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sun Feb 5 02:26:19 CET 2006

Duncan Booth wrote:

I'm not convinced by the rationale given why atime,ctime,mtime and size are methods rather than properties but I do find this PEP much more agreeable than the last time I looked at it.

A better rationale for doing it is that all of them may raise IOException. It's rude for properties to do that, so it's better to make them methods instead.

That was a general guideline that came up the first time adding Path was proposed - if the functionality involved querying or manipulating the actual filesystem (and therefore potentially raising IOError), then it should be a method. If the operation related solely to the string representation, then it could be a property.

Cheers, Nick.

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