Why exception from os.path.exists()?

[Peter J. Holzer]

On 2018-06-11 14:23:42 +0300, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-python at hjp.at>:
> > On 2018-06-11 01:06:37 +0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> >> Baking a limitation of some file systems into the high-level
> >> interface is simply a *bad idea*.
> >
> > We aren't talking about a high-level interface here.
> 
> Call it high-level or not, we *are* talking about an interface
> ("os.path") whose whole raison d'être is abstracting OS specifics from
> basic pathname processing.

I can understand that Stephen missed the fact that we were talking about
os.stat, not os.path. But how could you miss that? It was you who
brought up os.stat and I was just replying to your message. Please try
to keep track of what you are talking about, otherwise discussions will
not be very productive.


> > You are barking up the wrong tree here.
> 
> I believe the "wrong tree" would want a ValueError to be raised in this
> situation.

Nope. The wrong tree is os.path, when we are talking about os.stat.

        hp

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