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How py.path ate my files
- thepain 10y agoUpdate: there is an error in the write-up: print p actually returns the path string. However since I was using IPython, showing `p` without printing it displays the object representation: In [20]: p Out[20]: local('/home/user') This story is nothing I am proud of, but I wanted to share it anyway, I think there are a few interesting facets to this, e.g. how I got there: - not discovering the solution through the documentation, - hacking away instead of asking, - lack of attention to detail when hacking through it (do I really wanna do this on my homefolder???), - also: forgetting about the incident right away I guess that makes me look bad, but I believe such errors happen everywhere and all the time. So there is the question, why did the solution not occur to me? Am I really just stupid and I am the only one? Or should the `__str__` method be included in API-documentation? I don't know, but I'd like to hear your thoughts! (edit: formatting)