On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 6:49 PM, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: > Speaking of the low level, the classic UNIX file system doesn't make use > of pathnames. Rather, the files are nameless. They are identified by the > device (= file system) number plus the inode number.
Not entirely fair. A file system has directories in it, which have names in them referencing other inodes. So while you can get to the contents of the file given only its inode, but the path names are very much a part of the file system too. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
