Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka+cpyt...@gmail.com> added the comment:
To add some context, the follow_symlinks parameter was added to os.stat() after adding support of *at() functions (like openat() and fstatat()). Since both C functions stat() and lstat() are superseded by fstatat(), the latter was exposed at Python level as adding new keyword-only parameters to os.stat(). This allowed to avoid significant increasing the number of functions in the os module. Since there is no function that supersedes both posix_spawn() and posix_spawnp(), this may be an argument for exposing them as separate functions at Python level. Although this argument is not very strong. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue35674> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
