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

[Random832]

On 05/07/2013 02:51 AM, Pieter Nagel wrote:
> At issue here is the file type stat flags such as S_IS*.
>
> The permission bits are not a problem. I'm confident that the permission
> bits are specified by POSIX, and thus cross-platform (haven't
> double-checked though).
They are not. What is specified, which you may be thinking of, is the 
meaning of a numeric argument to the chmod _command_, from which you can 
no more infer that the bits themselves are the same than you can for 
signal numbers vs. the seven numeric values specified as arguments to 
the kill command.