Phillip J. Eby wrote: >>- ctime() is documented to be unportable: it has different semantics on UNIX >>and Windows. I believe the class should abstract from these details. > > > Note that this is the opposite of normal Python policy: Python does not > attempt to create cross-platform abstractions, but instead chooses to > expose platform differences. The Path class shouldn't abstract this any > more than the original *path modules do.
I think this is partially due to a misunderstanding, both by Microsoft, and in Python. There is a long-time myth that ctime denotes "creation time", as this is really in-line with mtime and atime. I think the path module should provide these under a different name: creation_time and status_change_time. Either of these might be absent. ctime should be provided to report whatever ctime used to report in the past (i.e. creation_time on Windows, status_change_time on Unix). Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ 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
