Martin v. Löwis wrote:
M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
The question is whether it would encourage conditional work-arounds.
-1. That only makes the code more complicated.
You misunderstand. I'm not proposing that the work-around is added
to Python. I'm saying that Python *users* might introduce such
work-a
M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
The question is whether it would encourage conditional work-arounds.
-1. That only makes the code more complicated.
You misunderstand. I'm not proposing that the work-around is added
to Python. I'm saying that Python *users* might introduce such
work-arounds to their code.
+1
Martin v. Löwis wrote:
Skip Montanaro wrote:
> I say backport. If people were trying to call os.access with unicode
filenames it would have been failing and they were either avoiding
unicode
filenames as a result or working around it some other way. I can't
see how
making os.access work with u
Skip Montanaro wrote:
> I say backport. If people were trying to call os.access with unicode
filenames it would have been failing and they were either avoiding unicode
filenames as a result or working around it some other way. I can't see how
making os.access work with unicode filenames is going
Brett> If there was no other way to get os.access-like functionality, I
Brett> would say it should be backported. But since there are other
Brett> ways to figure out everything that os.access can tell you I say
Brett> don't backport...
I don't think you can tell (certainly not eas
Brett C. wrote:
If there was no other way to get os.access-like functionality, I would
say it should be backported. But since there are other ways to figure
out everything that os.access can tell you
I believe this is not really true, atleast not on Windows, and perhaps
not in certain NFS cases,
Brett C. wrote:
Martin v. Löwis wrote:
Apparently, os.access was forgotten when the file system encoding
was introduced in Python 2.2, and then it was again forgotten in
PEP 277.
I've now fixed it in the trunk (posixmodule.c:2.334), and I wonder
whether this is a backport candidate. People who try
Martin v. Löwis wrote:
Apparently, os.access was forgotten when the file system encoding
was introduced in Python 2.2, and then it was again forgotten in
PEP 277.
I've now fixed it in the trunk (posixmodule.c:2.334), and I wonder
whether this is a backport candidate. People who try to invoke
os.acc
