Charles-François Natali <neolo...@free.fr> added the comment: > As a Python user (and not a committer), I disagree. > > As an user, I don't care too much where the function should be placed > (although I believe os or sys are sensible choices). What I do care is > that I want a extremely simple function that will "just work". Don't > make me add code for handling all the extra cases, such code should be > inside the function.
For what it's worth, as a Python committer, I agree with you. Python is a very high level language, and I think the standard library should be as natural and offer the same productivity gain as the core language does. Exposing to the user a mere wrapper around a syscall/library just doesn't make sense to me. Sure, it should be made available for those who want/need to do low-level system programming (and I'm one of those), but the vast majority of users want something higher level than the POSIX/Windows library. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue13609> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
