Sept. 6, 2002
3:42 p.m.
This seems to me the most Pythonic way.
I admit that this looks tempting, but I'm worried about applications that break because they expect time stamps in struct stat to be integers.
Hm, so maybe new field names is still the way to go. E.g. st_mtime gives an int, st_mtimef gives a float. The tuple version only gives the int. If the system doesn't support subsecond resolution, the st_mtimef field still exists but is an int (no point allocating a float and converting the int). --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)