[Python-Dev] stat() return value (was: Re: Proof of the pudding: str.partition()) (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Thu Sep 1 03:05:55 CEST 2005


On 8/31/05, skip at pobox.com <skip at pobox.com> wrote:

I think that would be a good idea. Return an honest-to-goodness stat object and also strip the "st" prefixes removed from the attributes. There's no namespace collision problems from which the prefixes protect us.

+1 on dropping the sequence.

-0 on dropping the st_ prefix; these are conventional and familiar to all UNIX developers and most C programmers, and help with grepping (and these days, Googling :).

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