Bob Ippolito wrote: > > On Oct 27, 2005, at 4:32 PM, Neal Becker wrote: > >> "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: >> >>> I see. Python is making up the EISDIR, looking at the stat result. >>> In Objects/fileobject.c:dircheck generates the EISDIR error, which >>> apparently comes from posix_fdopen, PyFile_FromFile, >>> fill_file_fields. >>> >>> Python simply does not support file objects which stat(2) as >>> directories. >>> >>> >> >> OK, does python have a C API that would allow me to create a python >> file >> object from my C (C++) code? Then instead of using python's fdopen >> I could >> just do it myself. > > Why do you need a file object for something that is not a file > anyway? select.select doesn't require file objects for example, just > objects that have a fileno() method. > Yes, that's a good point - the reason is I didn't want to restrict the interface to only work with select. Maybe I should rethink the interface.
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