On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 11:35 PM, Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> wrote: > 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?
Now I have. :-) -1 on a new function (despite the constant-argument guideline) and +1 on a flag. If it weren't for backwards compatibility I'd just change os.makedirs() to act like mkdir -p period, but the last opportunity we had for that was Python 3.0. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ 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
