Éric Araujo <mer...@netwok.org> added the comment: To quote the initial message:
> If it were desired to determine which file was newer using sub-second > values, perhaps that would make a reasonable change in distutils2, > but files created with a few microseconds would have to be considered > equivalent due to the reduced precision available in python floats > (53 bits on my platform, if I understand correctly) as compared to > the 64 bit precision used by some operating systems and file systems. ---------- title: Is it desired to distinguish new files from old with sub-second resolution? -> Use sub-second resolution to determine if a file is newer versions: +Python 3.3 -Python 2.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue11993> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
