On 06/14/2012 08:20 PM, Benjamin Peterson wrote: > 2012/6/14 Larry Hastings<larry at hastings.org>: >> 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(). > Then indeed it's more granular than a parameter being "implemented" or > not. A parameter may have a more restricted or extended meaning on > different operating systems. (sendfile() on files for example). If you can suggest a representation that can convey this sort of subtle complexity without being miserable to use, I for one would be very interested to see it. I suggest that "is_implemented" solves a legitimate problem in a reasonable way; I wasn't attempting to be all things to all use cases. //arry/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20120614/cfb04ef6/attachment.html>
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