Message 214594 - Python tracker

Message214594

Author	pitrou
Recipients	h.venev, pitrou
Date	2014-03-23.16:05:33
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Message-id	<1395590733.75.0.0770519614759.issue21039@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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Yes, this is by design. The occasional difference between slash-ended and non-slash-ended paths is unexpected and potentially confusing. Moreover, it's not a property of the OS itself - it's just some syntactic sugar to enable an option such as resolving symlinks. pathlib paths represent filesystem paths, not arbitrary shell arguments. Similarly, pathlib doesn't have special processing for "~someuser" parts. (as for URL paths, they are not part of the design space of pathlib)

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Yes, this is by design. The occasional difference between slash-ended and non-slash-ended paths is unexpected and potentially confusing. Moreover, it's not a property of the OS itself - it's just some syntactic sugar to enable an option such as resolving symlinks. pathlib paths represent filesystem paths, not arbitrary shell arguments.

Similarly, pathlib doesn't have special processing for "~someuser" parts.

(as for URL paths, they are not part of the design space of pathlib)

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Date	User	Action	Args
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