[Python-Dev] Help with inotify (original) (raw)

Bob Ippolito bob at redivi.com
Fri Oct 28 01:49:02 CEST 2005

On Oct 27, 2005, at 4:32 PM, Neal Becker wrote:

"Martin v. Löwis" wrote:

I see. Python is making up the EISDIR, looking at the stat result. In Objects/fileobject.c:dircheck generates the EISDIR error, which apparently comes from posixfdopen, PyFileFromFile, fillfilefields.

Python simply does not support file objects which stat(2) as directories.

OK, does python have a C API that would allow me to create a python file object from my C (C++) code? Then instead of using python's fdopen I could just do it myself.

Why do you need a file object for something that is not a file
anyway? select.select doesn't require file objects for example, just
objects that have a fileno() method.

-bob

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