On 10 January 2016 at 08:19, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 3:51 AM, Mahmoud Hashemi <mahmoud@hatnote.com> wrote:
I think it's a pretty common itch! Have you seen the boltons implementation? http://boltons.readthedocs.org/en/latest/fileutils.html#file-permissions
Yes it is, and no I haven't; everyone has a slightly different idea of what makes a good API, and that's why I put that caveat onto my suggestion. You can't make everyone happy, and APIs should not be designed by committee :)
In the context of Python as a cross-platform language, it's also important to remember that POSIX-style user/group/other permissions are only one form of file level access control - depending on your filesystem and OS, there will be a range of others. That significantly reduces the motivation to try to provide a platform independent abstraction for an inherently platform specific concept (at least in the standard library - PyPI is a different matter). Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia