Martin v. Löwis <mar...@v.loewis.de> added the comment: > Developers may think that the file descriptor is closed when the integer > object gets out of scope.
I'm not concerned about that. When they use os.open, they will typically understand what a file handle is, and how it relates to > I propose the addition of opendir() for the purpose of the *at() > functions. The opendir function should return a wrapper object around > the DIR* pointer returned by opendir(). A function fileno() exposed the > file descriptor of the DIR pointer via dirfd(). -1. This is exactly the second-guessing kind of thing that the POSIX module should avoid. openat(2) doesn't expect DIR objects, and neither should posix.openat. If desired, a layer can be added on top of this that makes it more "safe", e.g. in the os module; such a layer should then try to make it cross-platform before trying to make it safe. _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue4761> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
