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From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-05-03 10:13:56


David Abrahams wrote:

> Yes. It also complicates the code. Just look at all the instances of
> os.path.native and os.path.make that we have already. They'd all
> disappear. Also, note that in many cases an un-normalized path is the
> same as its normalized version, so no tests will discover if you forget
> a conversion somewhere.

True. However, in case of unnormalized paths, tests that deal with directory
names will be much harder to write. Or am I wrong?

- Volodya

 


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