Anthony Baxter wrote:
So here's a list of open items I'm thinking about for the 2.4.1 release.
- os.access handling unicode filenames
I'm still thinking over whether this is going to cause more problems
for people who find it works for some Python 2.4 and not others. I'm
leaning towards saying that this is a bug fix, but I'd appreciate any comments (pro or con). If no-one comments, I'll go with whatever my
gut feeling says is the right answer.
(I've been lurking for a while but this is my first post. I maintain paramiko and enjoy harrassing people on sourceforge to fix the new-style Exception bug that vexes me. Nice to meet you all.) :)
I agree 100% with the arguments made over the past couple of weeks about strictly refusing to add new features to micro releases (like 2.4.1). But I don't think fixing the os.access bug is anything but a bug fix, and here's my rationale:
It's entirely possible that some python users have worked around this bug by special-casing their use of os.access to manually encode the filename, but that doesn't mean that bringing os.access behavior in line with the other filename methods should be considered a "feature add". Pretend there was a bug with "int" such that you could add any number to it except 1. You can work around this bug by replacing "+1" with "+2-1" but it doesn't make it any less of a bug or any less important to fix.
In other words, I don't think that the argument "users may have written code to work around the bug" is a valid reason to not fix a bug.
robey
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