I really don't understand why you *want* a worse, much less cross-platform API?
> Okay, so using that logic we should head over to the os module and remove: > > ctermid, getenv, getegid... > > Okay, I'm tired of typing, but that list is not even half-way through the os > page, and those are all methods or attributes that are not available on > either Windows or Unix or some flavors of Unix. True, is this really the precedent we want to *aim for*. listdir() is cross-platform, and it's relatively easy to make scandir() cross-platform, so why not? > Oh, and all those upper-case attributes? Yup, documented. And when we > don't document it ourselves we often refer readers to their system > documentation because Python does not, in fact, return exactly the same > results on all platforms -- particularly when calling into the OS. But again, why a worse, less cross-platform API when a simple, cross-platform one is a method call away? -Ben _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
