[Python-Dev] Adding the 'path' module (was Re: Some RFE for review)

Donovan Baarda abo at minkirri.apana.org.au
Tue Jun 28 02:48:22 CEST 2005


On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 14:25, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
[...]
> As for the open issues, if we can't reach some sane compromise about 
> atime/ctime/mtime, I'd suggest just providing the stat() method and let 
> people use stat().st_mtime et al.  Alternately, I'd be okay with creating 
> last_modified(), last_accessed(), and created_on() methods that return 
> datetime objects, as long as there's also atime()/mtime()/ctime() methods 
> that return timestamps.

+1 for atime/mtime/ctime being timestamps
-1 for redundant duplicates that return DateTimes
+1 for a stat() method (there is lots of other goodies in a stat).

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Donovan Baarda <abo at minkirri.apana.org.au>



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