Hi,
effbot:
> > btw, Python's remove/unlink implementation is slightly
> > broken -- they both map to unlink, but that's not the
> > right way to do it:
> >
> > from SUSv2:
> >
> > int remove(const char *path);
> >
> > If path does not name a directory, remove(path)
> > is equivalent to unlink(path).
> >
> > If path names a directory, remove(path) is equi-
> > valent to rmdir(path).
> >
> > should I fix this?
BDFL:
> That's a new one -- didn't exist when I learned Unix.
Yes, this 'remove()' has been added relatively late to Unix. It didn't
existed for example in SCO XENIX 386 (the first "real" OS available
for relatively inexpensive IBM-PC arch boxes long before the advent
of Linux).
Changing the behaviour of Pythons 'os.remove()' on Unices might break
some existing code (although such code is not portable to WinXX anyway):
pf@artcom0:ttyp3 ~ 7> mkdir emptydir
pf@artcom0:ttyp3 ~ 8> python
Python 1.5.2 (#1, Jul 23 1999, 06:38:16) [GCC egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs- on linux2
Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
>>> import os
>>> try:
... os.remove('emptydir')
... except OSError:
... print 'emptydir is a directory'
...
emptydir is a directory
>>>
> I guess we can fix this in 2.1.
Please don't do this without a heavy duty warning in a section about
expected upgrade problems.
This change might annoy people, who otherwise don't care about
portability and use Python on Unices only. I imagine people using
something like this:
def cleanup_junkfiles(targetdir)
for n in os.listdir(targetdir):
try:
os.remove(n)
except OSError:
pass
Regards, Peter
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