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

Larry Hastings larry at hastings.org
Fri Jun 15 06:43:34 CEST 2012

On 06/14/2012 08:20 PM, Benjamin Peterson wrote:

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).

If you can suggest a representation that can convey this sort of subtle complexity without being miserable to use, I for one would be very interested to see it. I suggest that "is_implemented" solves a legitimate problem in a reasonable way; I wasn't attempting to be all things to all use cases.

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