Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> Duncan Booth wrote: >> I'm not convinced by the rationale given why atime,ctime,mtime and >> size are methods rather than properties but I do find this PEP much >> more agreeable than the last time I looked at it. > > A better rationale for doing it is that all of them may raise > IOException. It's rude for properties to do that, so it's better to > make them methods instead. Yes, that rationale sounds good to me. > > That was a general guideline that came up the first time adding Path > was proposed - if the functionality involved querying or manipulating > the actual filesystem (and therefore potentially raising IOError), > then it should be a method. If the operation related solely to the > string representation, then it could be a property. Perhaps Bjorn could add that to the PEP? _______________________________________________ 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
