Mike Orr wrote: > The main difficulty with this approach is it's so radical. It would > require a serious champion to convince people it's as good as our > tried-and-true strings.
Another thing you would need to do is implement it for some of the less Unix-like path syntaxes, such as Classic MacOS and VMS, to make sure that it's feasible to fit them into your tuple-like format. > The question is, does forcing people to use .stat() expose an > implementation detail that should be hidden, and does it smell of > Unixism? Most people think a file *is* a regular file or a directory. > The fact that this is encoded in the file's permission bits -- which > stat() examines -- is a quirk of Unix. Permission bits aren't the only thing that stat() examines. I don't see anything wrong with having stat() be the way to get at whatever metadata there is about a file on a platform. And having .isdir etc. attributes on the stat() result abstracts whether they're obtained from the permission bits or not. -- Greg _______________________________________________ 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
