Gregory P. Smith added the comment: Actually I'm thinking this duck may only have a beak. Instead of a bunch of fields of None I'd prefer just not having that attribute defined on the object. I consider the os specific "stat-like" info from reading a directory to be so os specific that i'd rather not let someone be confused by it if it were to be returned up to a higher level caller. It's not a stat. On May 6, 2013 2:36 AM, "Charles-François Natali" <rep...@bugs.python.org> wrote:
> > Charles-François Natali added the comment: > > > I don't think that's true in general, or true of how other Python APIs > work. For instance, many APIs return a "file-like object", and you can only > do certain things on that object, depending on what the documentation says, > or what EAFP gets you. Some file-like object don't support seek/tell, some > don't support close, etc. I've seen plenty of walk-like-a-duck checks like > this: > > Yes, I'm fully aware duck-typing ;-) > But here, you're saying that "a duck has a beak, but it *may* have > legs, a tail, etc". > It's just looks wrong to me on so many levels. > > Please bring this up on python-dev. > > ---------- > > _______________________________________ > Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> > <http://bugs.python.org/issue11406> > _______________________________________ > ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue11406> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
