[Python-checkins] r45898 - in python/trunk: Lib/test/test_os.py Lib/test/test_shutil.py Misc/NEWS Modules/posixmodule.c

[Guido van Rossum]

Maybe it's time to look again? Perhaps a refactoring could be used so
that there are multiple files -- code shared across all OS'es, and
code specifically to one OS.

On 5/4/06, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
> Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > I wonder if it's time to move the Win32 code out of posixmodule.c? It
> > seems the current mess of #ifdefs can't be very maintainable.
>
> I vaguely recall that we had considered that before, and rejected it,
> for some reason. Not sure what the reason was, but one might have been
> that there still is OS/2 code in there, also.
>
> Regards,
> Martin
>


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