On 20Jul2010 17:49, Michael Foord <fuzzy...@voidspace.org.uk> wrote: | On 20/07/2010 14:43, Nick Coghlan wrote: | >On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 11:09 PM, Steven D'Aprano<st...@pearwood.info> wrote: | >>I'm -0 on adding an argument to os.makedirs, +0 on adding a variant | >>function to os, and +0.5 on adding the variant to the shutil module. | >shutil seems like the place for it to me. The subtlety of getting the | >error suppression correct makes it worth implementing this once and | >for all I think. | | Really - so we have two almost identical functions with slightly | different behaviour in different standard library modules?
Three if you count os.mkdir itself as well. | Aren't | the Python APIs for working with files and paths confused enough | already. That seems crazy to me and a switch on os.makedirs much | more sensible. +1 from me. Hasn't the BDFL blessed this particular suggestion too? Disclaimer: I am _not_ a dev. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ I am not a free man, I am a number. - Beirne Konarski <beir...@summitis.com> _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
