STINNER Victor <vstin...@redhat.com> added the comment:
> The definitive solution to this problem would theoretically be to have all > these interconnected functions pass fds instead of "paths" but of course that > is hardly possible. I agree that it's the way to go. Python makes little difference between a path and file descriptor. For example, os.stat() accepts both a filename (string) or a file descriptor (integer). Even if we cannot fix everything, it makes sense to me to try to fix at least shutil.copyfile(). Even we cannot modify existing other public copy*() functions to handle file descriptors, maybe we can add private helper functions accepting file descriptors, and modify existing public functions to reuse them? ---------- nosy: +vstinner _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue30400> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
