[Python-Dev] Remaining decisions on PEP 471 -- os.scandir() (original) (raw)

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Tue Jul 15 14:31:16 CEST 2014

On 15 July 2014 13:19, Ben Hoyt <benhoyt at gmail.com> wrote:

Hmmm, perhaps. You suggest .fullname implies it's the absolute path, which isn't true. I don't mind .path, but it kind of sounds like "the Path object associated with this entry". I think "fullname" is fine -- it's not "absname".

Interesting. I hadn't really thought about it, but I might have assumed full_name was absolute. However, now I see that it's "only as absolute as the directory argument to scandir is". Having said that, I don't think that full_name implies that, just that it's a possible mistake people could make. I agree that "path" could be seen as implying a Path object.

My preference would be to retain the name full_name, but just make it explicit in the documentation that it is based on the directory name argument.

Paul

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