[issue2874] Remove use of the stat module in the stdlib

[Brett Cannon]

Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> added the comment:

On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Brett Cannon <report at bugs.python.org> wrote:
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> Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> added the comment:
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> Another option is to eliminate the use of PyStructSequence and handle
> the creation of a named tuple and a class with the methods in os.py.
> Then stat() can just return a tuple and the Python code can create the
> instances from that.
>

Although I noticed that what fields are available are affected by
compile-time info, so that might not be the best solution.

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