[Python-Dev] Re: Adding 'lexists()' to os.path (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Sun Aug 22 16:58:39 CEST 2004


Paul Moore wrote:

As an alternative, would there be any value in cacheing the last stat result?

That won't help (in addition to the problems it causes). One of the stat calls must be stat(2), the other one lstat(2).

Regards, Martin



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