Skip Montanaro wrote:
I say backport. If people were trying to call os.access with unicode
filenames it would have been failing and they were either avoiding unicode
filenames as a result or working around it some other way. I can't see how
making os.access work with unicode filenames is going
Martin v. Löwis wrote:
Skip Montanaro wrote:
I say backport. If people were trying to call os.access with unicode
filenames it would have been failing and they were either avoiding
unicode
filenames as a result or working around it some other way. I can't
see how
making os.access work with
Martin v. Löwis wrote:
M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
The question is whether it would encourage conditional work-arounds.
-1. That only makes the code more complicated.
You misunderstand. I'm not proposing that the work-around is added
to Python. I'm saying that Python *users* might introduce such
Brett C. wrote:
If there was no other way to get os.access-like functionality, I would
say it should be backported. But since there are other ways to figure
out everything that os.access can tell you
I believe this is not really true, atleast not on Windows, and perhaps
not in certain NFS
Apparently, os.access was forgotten when the file system encoding
was introduced in Python 2.2, and then it was again forgotten in
PEP 277.
I've now fixed it in the trunk (posixmodule.c:2.334), and I wonder
whether this is a backport candidate. People who try to invoke
os.access with a non-ASCII
Martin v. Löwis wrote:
Apparently, os.access was forgotten when the file system encoding
was introduced in Python 2.2, and then it was again forgotten in
PEP 277.
I've now fixed it in the trunk (posixmodule.c:2.334), and I wonder
whether this is a backport candidate. People who try to invoke
Brett C. wrote:
Martin v. Löwis wrote:
Apparently, os.access was forgotten when the file system encoding
was introduced in Python 2.2, and then it was again forgotten in
PEP 277.
I've now fixed it in the trunk (posixmodule.c:2.334), and I wonder
whether this is a backport candidate. People who try
