[Python-Dev] The path module PEP

Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro gjc at inescporto.pt
Tue Jan 24 22:34:28 CET 2006


On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 21:22 +0100, BJörn Lindqvist wrote:
[...]

>         # Operations on path strings.
>         def abspath(sef): ...
>         def normcase(self): ...
>         def normpath(self): ...
>         def realpath(self): ...
>         def expanduser(self): ...
>         def expandvars(self): ...
>         def dirname(self): ...
>         def basename(self): ...
>         def expand(self): ...
>         def splitpath(self): ...
>         def splitdrive(self): ...
>         def splitext(self): ...
>         def stripext(self): ...
>         def splitunc(self): ... [1]
>         def joinpath(self, *args): ...
>         def splitall(self): ...
>         def relpath(self): ...
>         def relpathto(self, dest): ...
[...etc...]

  If we wanted to take PEP 8 seriously, those method names should be
changed to words_separated_by_underscores.

  And BTW, what does splitunc do?  It really should have a more
descriptive name.

  Regards.

-- 
Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
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