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I've never understood what is the "philosophical problem" per se. It's
clear from his implementation--Guido created "splitunc" when he removed
my patch--that he thinks these should be precise string operations.
Whereas I propose making these slightly higher-level abstract operations
on "paths" with "drives" (really "mount points"). I think my approach
is more pleasant to use.
As for whether or not "\\foo" should be considered an absolute
path--perhaps my 1999 patch changed this behavior, but this patch does
not. This:
>>> import ntpath
>>> ntpath.isabs("//foo")
True
is unchanged by the attached patch. (Or, at the very least, the latest
patch.)
At the time I guess I did a poor job of demonstrating the use case, but
I think the chorus of +1s shows there is one.
On the other hand, I'm not a Windows programmer anymore, and I barely
touch Windows boxes. I'm doing this out of the kindness of my heart ;) |
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2009-05-05 21:35:12 | larry | set | recipients:
+ larry, mhammond, paul.moore, amaury.forgeotdarc, eric.smith |
2009-05-05 21:35:12 | larry | set | messageid: <1241559312.58.0.0992501922376.issue5799@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> |
2009-05-05 21:35:09 | larry | link | issue5799 messages |
2009-05-05 21:35:09 | larry | create | |
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