[Python-Dev] PEP 376

[P.J. Eby]

At 05:42 PM 6/22/2009 +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>Wouldn't it be better to use the native line terminator on the current
>platform? (someone might want to edit or at least view the file)
>
>
>Good idea, I'll change that,
>

As long as the file is always *read* with "U" mode, so that you can't 
mess it up, especially if the install is to a directory shared 
between platforms.


>The idea of this API is to find out of a distribution "owns" a file, 
>e.g. is the only distribution
>that uses it, so it can be safely removed.

This could equally well be done by ``owners(path)``, returning a 
sequence of zero or more items.  Any length <> 1 means the file can't 
be safely removed.  Meanwhile, having the data about all the owners 
of a file would also be useful for tools that just want to inspect a 
directory's contents, for example, or to detect conflicts and overwrites.