On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 6:04 PM, Antoine Pitrou solipsis@pitrou.net wrote:
That's a very good idea! Even better if there's a way to make it work as expected with openat support (for example by allowing __fspath__ to return a (dir_fd, filename) tuple).
The other thing I thought might be useful is to try to tie it into the new "opener" parameter for open somehow, On the other hand, that's getting further into full-blown filesystem emulation territory (http://packages.python.org/fs/). That may not be a bad thing, though - a proper filesystem abstraction might finally let us deal with encoding and case-sensitivity issues in a sane way, since they're filesystem dependent rather than platform dependent (e.g. opening FAT/FAT32 devices on *nix systems).
Cheers, Nick.