R. David Murray added the comment: That's not a good name for the flag. The problem is that 'read-only' means different things on Windows than it does on Unix. Which is why I suggested that the flag control whether or not it acts "posix like" on Windows. So perhaps 'posix_compat'? That feels a bit odd, though, since on posix it does nothing...so it's really about behavioral consistency across platforms....
Hmm. It's really hard to think of a name that conveys succinctly what we are talking about here. A more radical notion would be something like 'delete_control' and have it be tri-valued: 'unixlike', 'windowslike', and 'native', with the default being native. Bad names, most likely, but you get the idea. The disadvantage is that it would be even more code to implement ;) ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue19643> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
