On 2018-06-11 14:23:42 +0300, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > "Peter J. Holzer" <[email protected]>: > > On 2018-06-11 01:06:37 +0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >> Baking a limitation of some file systems into the high-level > >> interface is simply a *bad idea*. > > > > We aren't talking about a high-level interface here. > > Call it high-level or not, we *are* talking about an interface > ("os.path") whose whole raison d'être is abstracting OS specifics from > basic pathname processing.
I can understand that Stephen missed the fact that we were talking about
os.stat, not os.path. But how could you miss that? It was you who
brought up os.stat and I was just replying to your message. Please try
to keep track of what you are talking about, otherwise discussions will
not be very productive.
> > You are barking up the wrong tree here.
>
> I believe the "wrong tree" would want a ValueError to be raised in this
> situation.
Nope. The wrong tree is os.path, when we are talking about os.stat.
hp
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