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From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: how having the basename of a file or directory
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 01:26:56 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sjw73elr.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tygnwyt8.fsf@red-bean.com>

Karl Fogel writes:
 > "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org> writes:
 > > > or creating a basename function
 > >
 > >Un-Pythonic.  But then, this isn't Python, so I guess it's OK. ;-)
 > 
 >   $ python
 >   Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Dec 27 2010, 00:02:40) 
 >   >>> import os.path
 >   >>> os.path.basename("/home/kfogel/README")
 >   'README'
 >   >>> quit()
 >   $ 

You know what I mean.  "Not every three-line function needs to be a
built-in."  AFAIK Python doesn't have an equivalent to
file-name-directory; you need to write that yourself.



  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-01 16:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-31  7:25 how having the basename of a file or directory Thierry Volpiatto
2011-01-31  8:30 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-01-31  8:59   ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-01-31 10:28     ` Andreas Schwab
2011-01-31 11:03       ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-01-31 12:07         ` Andreas Schwab
2011-01-31 12:19           ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-01-31 12:53             ` Andreas Schwab
2011-01-31 15:29     ` Stefan Monnier
2011-01-31 16:30       ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-01-31 16:43         ` Karl Fogel
2011-01-31 19:53         ` Stefan Monnier
2011-01-31 20:39           ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-02-01 11:55     ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-02-01 15:37       ` Karl Fogel
2011-02-01 16:26         ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2011-02-01 16:52           ` Karl Fogel
2011-02-02 12:27             ` Stephen J. Turnbull

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