"Guido van Rossum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On 8/31/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I think that would be a good idea. Return an honest-to-goodness stat >> object >> and also strip the "st_" prefixes removed from the attributes. There's >> no >> namespace collision problems from which the prefixes protect us. > > +1 on dropping the sequence.
Good. Another addition to PEP 3000. I was hoping this would not require a long-winded and possibly boring justification for something I suspect (without checking the archives) was in the back of some minds when the attributes were added. > -0 on dropping the st_ prefix; these are conventional and familiar to > all UNIX developers and most C programmers, and help with grepping > (and these days, Googling :). Terry J. Reedy _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
