On 2018-06-11 14:23:42 +0300, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-pyt...@hjp.at>: > > On 2018-06-11 01:06:37 +0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >> Baking a limitation of some file systems into the high-level > >> interface is simply a *bad idea*. > > > > We aren't talking about a high-level interface here. > > Call it high-level or not, we *are* talking about an interface > ("os.path") whose whole raison d'ĂȘtre is abstracting OS specifics from > basic pathname processing.
I can understand that Stephen missed the fact that we were talking about os.stat, not os.path. But how could you miss that? It was you who brought up os.stat and I was just replying to your message. Please try to keep track of what you are talking about, otherwise discussions will not be very productive. > > You are barking up the wrong tree here. > > I believe the "wrong tree" would want a ValueError to be raised in this > situation. Nope. The wrong tree is os.path, when we are talking about os.stat. hp -- _ | Peter J. Holzer | we build much bigger, better disasters now |_|_) | | because we have much more sophisticated | | | h...@hjp.at | management tools. __/ | http://www.hjp.at/ | -- Ross Anderson <https://www.edge.org/>
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