On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Tres Seaver <tsea...@palladion.com> wrote:
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> Antoine Pitrou wrote:
>> Pascal Chambon <pythoniks <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>> By the way, I'm having trouble with the "name" attribute of raw files,
>>> which can be string or integer (confusing), ambiguous if containing a
>>> relative path, and which isn't able to handle the new case of my
>>> library, i.e opening a file from an existing file handle (which is ALSO
>>> an integer, like C file descriptors...)
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>> What is the difference between "file handle" and a regular C file descriptor?
>> Is it some Windows-specific thing?
>> If so, then perhaps it deserves some Windows-specific attribute ("handle"?).
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> File descriptors are integer indexes into a process-specific table.AFAIK, they aren't simple indexes in windows, and that's partly why even file descriptors cannot be safely passed between C runtimes on windows (whereas they can in most unices). David _______________________________________________ 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
