[Python-Dev] POSIX [Fuzziness in io module specs] (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Fri Sep 18 22:40:14 CEST 2009

James Y Knight <foom fuhm.net> writes:

Why are you just making things up? There is a vast amount of precedent for how file operations should work. Python should follow that precedent and do like POSIX unless there's a compelling reason not to.

Actually, Python is cross-platform and therefore does not necessarily follow POSIX behaviour, especially when it is desired to hide inconsistencies between different platform.

(I do agree, of course, that the IO APIs are quite heavily inspired by the POSIX APIs)

Regards

Antoine.

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