Larry Hastings <[email protected]> added the comment:
r.david.murray said:
> No, Guido's boolean keyword dislike is not about things
> being unclear at the call site.
I wasn't referring to Guido specifically, just general code smell complaints
about boolean parameters.
> That is (I believe) he prefers lstat/stat to having stat take
> a boolean keyword, keyword-only or not.
>
> Did he weigh in on the python-ideas thread?
Not per se. But I ran into him when he was leaving PyCon 2012 for good (second
night of the sprints iirc), and he steered me to the original python-ideas
thread and asked me to follow up on it / work with the poster. (Probably
because of my doing the nanosecond-precision os.stat / utime work.) If there's
genuine opposition to the patch being generated here I'll ping him.
Oh, btw storchaka, in the email thread you asked
> how the user code will check the availability of
> dirfd functionality. Special global flags in os or sys?
No--it'll just be part of a release, and you'll check which version of Python 3
you have before using it.
if sys.version_info.major >= 3 or sys.version_info.minor >= 3:
# use extra flags
p.s. http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2012-March/014482.html
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