New submission from Erik Sandberg <sandb...@virtutech.com>: It would be nice if samefile / sameopenfile was present on Windows. Right now I usually work around this by keeping a platform-specific hack for Windows that approximates samefile by comparing normalized paths; this is ugly and doesn't handle junctions correctly.
In one of my projects I have written a C implementation of samefile, which I manually monkey-patched os.path with. It would probably be rather easy to adapt it to become a native part of ntpath. My code relies on GetFileInformationByHandle, which is only available in Windows 2000 professional and newer (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa364952(VS.85).aspx); if I understood it correctly this should not be a problem as Python 2.6 and newer doesn't support older versions of Windows. Unfortunately I don't use Windows myself, but I have rdesktop access to an XP machine with cygwin and Visual Studio 2005 installed (which seems insufficient to build python 2.6, at least), so it will be difficult for me to test my code. But I'll post some code soon. ---------- messages: 87518 nosy: sandberg severity: normal status: open title: Implement os.path.samefile and os.path.sameopenfile on Windows type: feature request versions: Python 2.5, Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.0, Python 3.1, Python 3.2 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue5985> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
