Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > I believe openat is new to POSIX (mandatory as of POSIX 2008). For > example, it's not currently in OS X and apparently was first added to > FreeBSD in 8.0. So it would have to be checked by configure and > documented as platform-dependent.
We already have os.openat: http://docs.python.org/dev/library/os.html#os.openat This request is to make it easier to use with the high-level IO classes. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12797> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com