[Python-Dev] Compiling the source without stat

[Terry Reedy]

On 12/14/2011 2:26 PM, Petri Lehtinen wrote:

> The problem boils down to the fact that you cannot really check
> whether a filesystem entry is a directory without calling stat() or
> fstat().
>
> My personal opinion is that support for DONT_HAVE_STAT and
> DONT_HAVE_FSTAT defines should be dropped because they don't work, and
> would only be useful in a very limited set of cases.

At present, it seems to be an attractive nuisance, tempting people like 
Hossein to try something that does not work.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy