Re: [Python-Dev] stat() return value (was: Re: Proof of thepudding: str.partition())

"Guido van Rossum" wrote in message news:ca471dc205083118051acd7fab@mail.gmail.com...

On 8/31/05, skip@pobox.com wrote:

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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.

Good. Another addition to PEP 3000. I was hoping this would not require a long-winded and possibly boring justification for something I suspect (without checking the archives) was in the back of some minds when the attributes were added.

-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 :).

Terry J. Reedy