[Python-ideas] PEP: Extended stat_result (First Draft)

[Giampaolo Rodola']

2013/5/6 Pieter Nagel <pieter at nagel.co.za>:

> But the primary motivation is not to avoid an import and "ugly" method
> names; the primary motivation is to make it easier to switch from
> writing naive code that stat()s a file many times to performant code
> that does stat() only once. The rest is just a happy side effect.

I don't understand what your proposal has to do with calling os.stat()
once or twice (you can already call it once and use stat.S_IS*
functions).

> And the *ulterior* motivation is to reduce the need for automagic stat()
> caching in PEP 428.

Can you elaborate more (and possibly also update the PEP including
this motivation)?

>> -1 about these too.
>> os.path provides only isfile(), isdir() and islink() because those are
>> the most common and portable file types, and that's fine.
>> Anything else is too specific (also *platform* specific) and does not
>> deserve a new utility function in os.path.
>
> The extent to which my additions to stat_result are "mirrored back" to
> os.path is one of the least certain parts of my proposal.

Fair enough.

> And when PEP 428 is accepted, there'll be *three* places where these
> methods could live, so I'll have to take that into account.

Another reason to leave os.path.* alone. =)


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