Antoine Pitrou writes: > James Y Knight <foom <at> fuhm.net> writes: > > > > Why are you just making things up? There is a *vast* amount of > > precedent for how file operations should work. Python should follow > > that precedent and do like POSIX unless there's a compelling reason > > not to. > > Actually, Python is cross-platform and therefore does not > necessarily follow POSIX behaviour, especially when it is desired > to hide inconsistencies between different platform.
That's what *James* said, except that I prefer his standard, because I believe POSIX documentation to be more accessible to a variety of Python developers than other system's, and it's better documented: rationales are included, history is available, etc. _______________________________________________ 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
