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2013/6/20 Eric V. Smith <eric@trueblade.com>:

> But isn't the real problem with this module in Python the fact that the

> constants might be wrong? I'm not sure what, if anything, we can do

> about that.



Python is providing a stat module implemented in Python since 10 years, or maybe 20 years, and I don't remember that someone complained that constants are wrong.



At the same time, Python distributes IN.py which contains things like that:



LONG_MAX = 9223372036854775807

LONG_MAX = 2147483647

LONG_MIN = (-LONG_MAX - 1)



In my opinion, the situation of plat-*/*.py modules is worse than stat.py :-)



Victor