[Python-Dev] Pathlib enhancments - method name only (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sun Apr 10 02:51:23 EDT 2016

On 9 April 2016 at 23:02, R. David Murray <rdmurray at bitdance.com> wrote:

That is, a 'filename' is the identifier we've assigned to this thing pointed to by an inode in linux, but an os path is a text representation of the path from the root filename to a specified filename. That is, the path is the name, so to say "path name" sounds redundant and confusing to me.

The term "pathname" is what is conventionally used to refer to a textual string passed to the OS to identify an object in the file system.

It's often abbreviated to just "path", but that's ambiguous for our purposes, because "path" can also refer to one of our higher-level objects.

-- Greg

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