Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: Ah, right. Well I think all arguments against it were quite weak (or even wrong). Let's see:
- it's not cross-platform: actually it is (OS_EXCL has been POSIX since at least 1997 (*), and Windows also has it) - os.open followed by os.fdopen is easy: it isn't that easy to get the incantation right (the pure Python open() in _pyio is 70 lines of code), especially if you want the file object to have the right "name" attribute - it doesn't fill a use case: actually, avoiding race conditions is an important use case, even though many people may never encounter it (I must admit I myself never really cared about this) So this looks like a reasonable feature request IMHO. (*) http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/open.html ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12760> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
