Re: path module
 

Ian Bicking wrote:
> I think Jason Orendorff's path module is really nice:
> http://www.jorendorff.com/articles/python/path/

Yes, looks nice.

> Beats the hell out of os.path, which is an ugly thing indeed. The OO
> interface means you could use the interface nicely to implement other
> things, like URLs. The problem? It's just some module. The various os
> functions (of which path replaces quite a few) have become idiomatic to
> me, and I'm sure others as well. I find myself reluctant to use it in
> code that's not essentially private, because it's changing something
> small and seemingly trivial, and people won't be familiar with it.
>
> The solution? It should be a builtin! Or, if not a builtin, included
> in the os module. But I actually like the idea of it being a builtin --
> if open is a builtin, path stands right up there too. It would get rid
> of 90% of the use of the os module.
>
> Thoughts? Reactions?

I agree that something like Jason Orendorff's path module should go into
the standard library. I've coded a similar module and i think that
a discussion about certain design decisions would probably improve our
approaches.

For example Jason lets the "path" object inherit from "str" (or unicode)
but i think it's better to provide a "__str__" method so that you can say

str(pathinstance).endswith('.py')

and *not* base the path object on str/unicode.

unicode(pathinstance)

would just fail if your platform doesn't support this. First, i tried
the inheritance approach, btw, but it is ambigous (e.g. for the
join-method (str.join and os.path.join).

Also, my module provides most of the os.path.* methods as "filters" so
you can say

dirs = filter(isdir, list_obj_pathobjects)
fnames = filter(AND(nolink, isfile), list_obj_pathobjects)

in addition to

pathobject.isfile()
etc.

Recently, i also did some experimentation with "virtual-fs" features so
that you can transparently access http/ftp/svn files/directories. I even
got that to work with "<tab>-completion" but that was quite a hack :-)

I am pretty sure that virtual-fs-like-extensibility would be a big
"selling" point and would motivate the use of such a module and
finally the inclusion into the stdlib. Of course, the local-fs should
be the convenient case but it shouldn't be hard to use the same methods
for accessing remote "repositories".

Anyway, i am all for going in this direction and would probably
like to participate in such a development and design effort.

cheers,

holger

Re: path module
 

In article <mailman.1057656790.5578.python-list@python.org>,
holger krekel <pyth@devel.trillke.net> wrote:

> I am pretty sure that virtual-fs-like-extensibility would be a big
> "selling" point and would motivate the use of such a module and
> finally the inclusion into the stdlib. Of course, the local-fs should
> be the convenient case but it shouldn't be hard to use the same methods
> for accessing remote "repositories".

Excellent point!

Just

Re: path module
 

holger krekel <pyth@devel.trillke.net> writes:
[...]
> Recently, i also did some experimentation with "virtual-fs" features so
> that you can transparently access http/ftp/svn files/directories. I even
> got that to work with "<tab>-completion" but that was quite a hack :-)
[...]

Note that this overlaps a bit with urllib and urllib2. Just something
that would need thinking about.


John

Re: path module
 

holger krekel <pyth@devel.trillke.net> wrote in message news:<mailman.1057656790.5578.python-list@python.org>...
> I agree that something like Jason Orendorff's path module should go into
> the standard library. I've coded a similar module and i think that
> a discussion about certain design decisions would probably improve our
> approaches.

Is it available anywhere? It would be nice to be able to try both, for comparison.

Paul.

Re: path module
 

Paul Moore wrote:
> holger krekel <pyth@devel.trillke.net> wrote in message news:<mailman.1057656790.5578.python-list@python.org>...
> > I agree that something like Jason Orendorff's path module should go into
> > the standard library. I've coded a similar module and i think that
> > a discussion about certain design decisions would probably improve our
> > approaches.
>
> Is it available anywhere? It would be nice to be able to try both, for comparison.

sorry, not right now. I'll try to make a release soonish.

holger

Re: path module
 

holger krekel wrote:

> Paul Moore wrote:
>
>>holger krekel <pyth@devel.trillke.net> wrote in message news:<mailman.1057656790.5578.python-list@python.org>...
>>
>>>I agree that something like Jason Orendorff's path module should go into
>>>the standard library. I've coded a similar module and i think that
>>>a discussion about certain design decisions would probably improve our
>>>approaches.
>>
>>Is it available anywhere? It would be nice to be able to try both, for comparison.
>
>
> sorry, not right now. I'll try to make a release soonish.
>
> holger
>

I cannot access the path.py module from
http://www.jorendorff.com/articles/python/path/

Someone can be so kind to email it to me?

Thanks in advance!

---
Paolo Invernizzi
paoloinvernizzi at dmsware.com

Re: path module
 

Try google with "cache:http://..." this worked for me.

Florian

On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 10:45:45 +0200, Paolo Invernizzi
<paoloinvernizzi@dmsware.com> wrote:

> holger krekel wrote:
>
>> Paul Moore wrote:
>>
>>> holger krekel <pyth@devel.trillke.net> wrote in message
>>> news:<mailman.1057656790.5578.python-list@python.org>...
>>>
>>>> I agree that something like Jason Orendorff's path module should go
>>>> into
>>>> the standard library. I've coded a similar module and i think that
>>>> a discussion about certain design decisions would probably improve our
>>>> approaches.
>>>
>>> Is it available anywhere? It would be nice to be able to try both, for
>>> comparison.
>>
>>
>> sorry, not right now. I'll try to make a release soonish.
>>
>> holger
>>
>
> I cannot access the path.py module from
> http://www.jorendorff.com/articles/python/path/
>
> Someone can be so kind to email it to me?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> ---
> Paolo Invernizzi
> paoloinvernizzi at dmsware.com
>
>
>
>



--
Florian Schulze

Re: path module
 

Florian Schulze wrote:

> Try google with "cache:http://..." this worked for me.

Done.

Thanks for the advice.

---
Paolo