[Python-Dev] Compiling the source without stat

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Am 15.12.2011 12:59, schrieb Hossein:
> I wanted to say something in the bug page petri showed (
> http://bugs.python.org/issue12082 ) however I though about first
> discussing it here. If faking a stat struct and a function to fill it
> solves the problem, and checking for existing files and folders is the
> only thing that python needs to be compiled (i'm talking about 2.7) then
> it's possible to fail-check it by just trying to open the file.

That's not true. It also looks at the file modification time.

Regards,
Martin