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

[Andrew Barnert]

> From: Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz>

> Sent: Monday, May 6, 2013 4:42 PM
> 
> 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.


Well, to someone who reads the _source_, it kind of implies that misapprehension.

But fixing that requires just a one-line comment saying something like, "These values are not standardized, they just happen to work on every platform this version of this module is used with."