Giampaolo Rodola' <[email protected]> added the comment:
> For example, os.stat() accepts both a filename (string) or a file descriptor
> (integer).
Interesting. I never realized that. Other functions involved in file copy are:
os.lchmod
os.chmod
os.listxattr
os.getxattr
I checked and it appears they all support fd args (this is not documented and
it should). os.path.* all use os.stat() internally so they can easily be
replaced. I wonder whether this can introduce any change in semantic though:
>>> import os
>>> os.stat('foobar')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'foobar'
>>> os.stat(333)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
OSError: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor: 333
Also wonder it this would play nice on Windows.
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