[issue9882] abspath from directory

2014-12-07 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2014-July/028382.html is the thread. No surge of support. -- resolution: -> rejected stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue9882] abspath from directory

2014-07-24 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Posted today on python-ideas with the mistaken title "os.path.argparse - optional startdir argument" by Wolfgang Maier (wolma). (He corrected in a second post, but too late.) Juancarlo Añez pointed to pathlib.Path.resolve as a better alternative. Path joins a

[issue9882] abspath from directory

2014-07-24 Thread Serhiy Storchaka
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[issue9882] abspath from directory

2014-07-24 Thread Wolfgang Maier
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[issue9882] abspath from directory

2013-08-17 Thread Ezio Melotti
Ezio Melotti added the comment: Was this brought up on python-ideas? If so, what was the outcome? -- nosy: +ezio.melotti ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue9882] abspath from directory

2010-12-25 Thread ipatrol
ipatrol added the comment: Yes, but this seems to be rational particularly for emulating directory changes without actually doing so. Since relative paths can use .. it may not always be straightforward to do this. Applications include archivers, dependency checkers, patch tools, self-extract

[issue9882] abspath from directory

2010-09-20 Thread Éric Araujo
Éric Araujo added the comment: Would you bring this up on python-ideas? I am neither +1 nor -1 on your idea, but I know that symmetry/consistency is not always a winning rationale. Not every possibly useful one-liner should be a standard function. -- nosy: +eric.araujo

[issue9882] abspath from directory

2010-09-17 Thread Éric Araujo
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[issue9882] abspath from directory

2010-09-16 Thread ipatrol
New submission from ipatrol : Just an easy patch. os.path.abspath is defined as os.path.normpath(os.path.join(os.getcwd(),path), but os.path.relpath also adds a start option. This creates an asymmetry where getting the absolute path from a relative path and a directory has no single operation