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Somewhat belatedly I've started using Jason Orendorff's path module for Python. It's great. Here's a comparison with the stock os.path facilities, grabbed from Jason's site:
# with os.path.walk
def delete_backups(arg, dirname, names):
for name in names:
if name.endswith('~'):
os.remove(os.path.join(dirname, name))
os.path.walk(os.environ['HOME'], delete_backups, None)
# with path
d = path(os.environ['HOME'])
for f in d.walkfiles('*~'):
f.remove()
The second snippet is not just shorter, it's easier to read and easier to write. I'm writing some code to recursively process a tree of short text files (Blosxom entries), and the path module is a godsend. If you're curious, see the description and examples on Jason's site; he also posted some interesting comments on Ian Bicking's blog about the design of the module.
I gather that there was significant interest in getting some version of this module included in Python 2.5, but I don't see any mention of it in the release notes. There's PEP 355 and a python-dev discussion from January. But unless I missed something (I'm still mostly using Python 2.4), it's not in 2.5 in any form. Here's hoping it makes it into 2.6...
GvR just said the path module will not get into Python so... that's it.
Yeah, I saw that and added my "bummer" update link above. Oh well. I guess it will just be part of my own little library for now.
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Seems someone heard you: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-September/069059.html