[Python-Dev] PEP 362 Third Revision (original) (raw)

Benjamin Peterson benjamin at python.org
Fri Jun 15 05:20:02 CEST 2012


2012/6/14 Larry Hastings <larry at hastings.org>:

Also, it's more granular than that.  For example, Python now understands symbolic links on Windows--but only haphazardly at best.  The "followsymlinks" argument works on Windows for os.stat() but not for os.chmod().

Then indeed it's more granular than a parameter being "implemented" or not. A parameter may have a more restricted or extended meaning on different operating systems. (sendfile() on files for example).

-- Regards, Benjamin



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