On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 01:21:44PM +0100, Dinu Gherman wrote: > Thomas Wouters wrote: > > > > I think the main reason such a function does not exist is that no-one wrote > > it. If you can write a portable function, or fake one by making different > > implementations on different platforms, please contribute ;) Step one is > > making an inventory of the available functions, though, so you know how > > large an intersection you have to work with. The fact that you have to start > > that study is probably the #1 reason no-one's done it yet :) > > Well, this is the usual "If you need it, do it yourself!" > answer, that bites the one who dares to speak up for all > those hundreds who don't... isn't it? > > Rather than asking one non-expert in N-1 +/- 1 operating > systems to implement it, why not ask N experts in imple- > menting Python on 1 platform to do the job? (Notice the > potential for parallelism?! :) > > Uhmm, seriously, does it really take 10 years for such an > issue to creep up high enough on the priority ladder of > Python-Labs? > In any case it doesn't sound like a Python 3000 feature to > me, or maybe it should? Nope. But you seem to misunderstand the idea behind Python development (and most of open-source development.) PythonLabs has a *lot* of stuff they have to do, and you cannot expect them to do everything. Truth is, this is not likely to be done by Pythonlabs, and it will never be done unless someone does it. It might sound harsh and unfriendly, but it's just a fact. It doesn't mean *you* have to do it, but that *someone* has to do it. Feel free to find someone to do it :) As for the parallelism: that means getting even more people to volunteer for the task. And the person(s) doing it still have to figure out the common denominators in 'get me free disk space info'. And the fact that it's *been* 10 years shows that noone cares enough about the free disk space issue to actually get people to code it. 10 years filled with a fair share of C programmers starting to use Python, so plenty of those people could've done it :) -- Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net> Hi! I'm a .signature virus! copy me into your .signature file to help me spread!
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