Antoine Calando acala...@free.fr added the comment:
Hi Martin,
Actually, I just investigated the problem in the libs and did not
check the python exe source code.
I guess you are right, this looks more like an issue from cygwin.
I was a bit irritated by hours of debugging when entering the
New submission from Antoine Calando acala...@free.fr:
On cygwin platform, with python cygwin package:
Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Dec 2 2008, 09:26:14)
When doing an os.stat('file') in a directory where no 'file' exists
but a 'file.exe' do, the function return a stat object, as if the call
was
Changes by David W. Lambert lamber...@corning.com:
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nosy: +LambertDW
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Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de added the comment:
Why do you think this is a bug in Python? It sounds like a bug in Cygwin
to me?
Python delegates to the C library as-is, with not attempt to
second-guessing the C library. So if the C library says file exists,
then this is also what Python
