Tom Hale <tomn...@gmail.com> added the comment:
Serhiy wrote > Detected problem is better than non-detected problem. I agree. I also assert that no problem (via a shutil wrapper) is better than a detected problem which may not be handled. While it's up to the programmer to handle exceptions, it's only systems programmers who will realise that there is a sometimes-occurring exception which should be handled. So most people won't handle it. They don't know that they need to. The shutil os.link and os.symlink wrappers under discussion on python-ideas prevent non-system-programmers from needing to know about the race-condition case (and correctly handling it). If something is difficult to get right, then let's put it in shutil and save everyone reinventing the wheel. 3 specific cases in which an atomic link replacement would be useful are listed here: https://code.activestate.com/lists/python-ideas/56195/ ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue36656> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
