[Python-Dev] Returning Windows file attribute information via os.stat() (original) (raw)

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Tue Jun 10 14:44:43 CEST 2014


On 10 June 2014 13:19, Ben Hoyt <benhoyt at gmail.com> wrote:

Because these are fixed-forever constants, I suspect in library code and the like people would just KISS and use an integer literal and a comment, avoiding the import/constant thing:

The stat module exposes a load of constants - why not add the (currently known) ones there? Finding the values of Windows constants if you don't have access to the C headers can be a pain, so having them defined somewhere as named values is useful.

Paul



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