On 10 May, 2013, at 14:16, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote:
> Le Fri, 10 May 2013 13:46:30 +0200, > Christian Heimes <christ...@python.org> a écrit : >> >> Hence I'm +1 on the general idea but -1 on something stat like. IMHO >> os.scandir() should yield four objects: >> >> * name >> * inode >> * file type or DT_UNKNOWN >> * stat_result or None >> >> stat_result shall only be returned when the operating systems >> provides a full stat result as returned by os.stat(). > > But what if some systems return more than the file type and less than a > full stat result? The general problem is POSIX's terrible inertia. > I feel that a stat result with some None fields would be an acceptable > compromise here. But how do you detect that the st_mode field on systems with a d_type is incomplete, as oposed to a system that can return a full st_mode from its readdir equivalent and where the permission bits happen to be 0o0000? One option would be to add a file type field to stat_result, IIRC this was mentioned in some revisions of the extended stat_result proposal over on python-ideas. Ronald > > Regards > > Antoine. > > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/ronaldoussoren%40mac.com _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
