On May 4, 2005, at 5:10 PM, Wolfgang Keller wrote: >>>> > Basically _every_ "modern" file system has extended attributes. > >>> Another question is if empty xattr dicts should appear on platforms >>> with no support for them. >>> > > >> Yes, they should appear empty, and I would imagine, throw an >> Exception on any attempt to set them. >> > > And, imho, the API (a dict) should be identical on all platforms that > support EAs, not just on MacOS X.
My implementation is open source and liberally licensed. Anyone who cares about extended attributes on other platforms can feel free to submit a patch or fork the code (if I become unresponsive to patches or something). I don't have care about this feature for other platforms, so I'm not going to write that code. -bob _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
