Daniel Holth dholth at gmail.com
Wed Oct 10 04:34:59 CEST 2012

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On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
> On 10/9/2012 9:30 AM, Eric Snow wrote:
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>> On Oct 9, 2012 1:12 AM, "Senthil Kumaran"
>> <senthil at uthcode.com
>> <mailto:senthil at uthcode.com>> wrote:
>>  > > `p.pathjoin(q)`
>>  >
>>  > +1
>>  >
>>  > It is very explicit and hard to get it wrong.
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> or path.concat(otherpath)
>
> --
> Terry Jan Reedy

I like the [] syntax. ZODB works this way when the subpath name is not
a valid Python identifier. a.b['c-d'] would be like a/b/c-d if ZODB
was a filesystem. I like the + syntax.

No one has suggested overloading the > operator?

p1 > p2 > p3

The < operator would keep its normal use for sorting. ;-)

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