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Fri Jun 15 05:17:26 CEST 2012 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-June/120276.html

On 06/14/2012 07:49 PM, Benjamin Peterson wrote:
> In that case wouldn't be nicer to have os level attribute ala
> os.path.supports_unicode_filenames?
>
> os.supports_atfunctions
>
> is gobs nicer than
>
> os.chown.__signature__.parameters['fd'].is_implemented
>
> Not "implementing" all parameters (whatever exactly that means) is not
> a very common case for a function, so I don't see what it needs to
> pollute a signature object for every Python function.

We can safely agree to disagree here.

Also, it's more granular than that.  For example, Python now understands 
symbolic links on Windows--but only haphazardly at best.  The 
"follow_symlinks" argument works on Windows for os.stat() but not for 
os.chmod().

//arry/
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