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

On 8/31/05, skip@pobox.com <skip@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 :). -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)