On Sat, Jun 2, 2018 at 10:14 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: >> But >> assuming you're right, POSIX is still a set of minimum requirements - >> not maximums, to my knowledge. > > It isn't even a set of minimum requirements. "<" is legal under POSIX, > but not Windows.
Windows isn't POSIX compliant. Anyhow, I've come to the conclusion that we're all about equally wrong here, so I'm going to just stop arguing. Anyone who wants the behaviour I described can get it easily enough via os.stat; and if you want ValueError to turn into False, that's also easy enough. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
