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

[Greg Ewing]

Pieter Nagel wrote:
> To summarise the thread: POSIX guarantees the *names* os the S_XXX
> constants, not their numeric values. But the stat module propagates the
> misapprehension that the values are standardised.

How does it do that? The values may happen to be the
same in all current implementations, but the docs don't
promise that.

-- 
Greg