[docs] [issue17924] Deprecate stat.S_IF* integer constants

Christian Heimes report at bugs.python.org
Tue May 7 14:05:20 CEST 2013


New submission from Christian Heimes:

Related to #11016
I like to deprecate the S_IF* constants in favor of the S_IS*() functions.

rationals:
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/sys_stat.h.html

No new S_IFMT symbolic names for the file type values of mode_t will be defined by POSIX.1-2008; if new file types are required, they will only be testable through S_ISxx() or S_TYPEISxxx() macros instead.

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assignee: docs at python
components: Documentation, Library (Lib)
messages: 188641
nosy: christian.heimes, docs at python
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Deprecate stat.S_IF* integer constants
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.4

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