Make os.path.join()
first parameter pos-only
#6812
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I was recently surprised to find that the mypy test suite doesn't pass mypy when run on Windows. This is because
posixpath.join()
andntpath.join()
have different names for the first parameter.Given that both
posixpath
andntpath
are undocumented modules -- which only exist to provide platform-specific implementations for theos.path
module -- I think it makes sense to make the first parameter positional-only for both functions. The whole point of theos.path
module is that you can get path-related functions that will reliably work on all systems. That guarantee goes away if you use a keyword argument for the first parameter ofos.path.join()
.