[Python-Dev] Windows IO (original) (raw)

"Martin v. L�wis" martin@v.loewis.de
Mon, 17 Mar 2003 23:08:31 +0100

James C. Ahlstrom wrote:

AFAIK, all Python IO uses the fprintf() functions of Windows. These stream IO functions are Posix emulations, are not the native Windows IO functions, and are second class citizens. The native Windows IO functions are CreateFile(), ReadFile(), WriteFile() etc. The native Windows functions support additional functionality.

This isn't really the case. fprintf is not (primarily) defined in POSIX, but in standard C, and it is part of the standard C library that comes with the C compiler. It is true that fprintf is not a system call on Windows, but neither is it a system call on Unix (the system call on Unix is write(2)).

Regards, Martin