Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > I'm not super-confident about the implementation of the > path-manipulation functions, and I would prefer to use the Python > implementations of the path-manipulation (dirname and join) instead. > If there are any suggestions in this regard, I'd appreciate them.
>From an implementation standpoint, I would indeed prefer the path handling functions to be written in Python. >From a principle standpoint, I'm not sure it's a good idea for os.symlink() to be non-atomic (there's a small race condition between reading the target's attributes and creating the actual symlink). Also, since in general you always know whether you're making a link to a directory or a file, I'm not sure auto-detection is really a plus (except that it makes things more familiar for Unix developers). ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue13772> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
