[Python-Dev] Re: [Python-checkins] CVS: python/dist/src/Lib/test test_os.py,1.6,1.7

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Thu, 18 Oct 2001 19:27:24 -0400


> does that imply that tm.tm_year != tm[0]?

Fortunately not.

> and should really all those of us who wouldn't dream of
> writing time or stat code in C have to suffer?  -0.5 from
> me.

Call me old-fashioned, but I *like* struct fields with unique
prefixes, in Python as well as in C.  It's a hint about what kind of
data structure we're looking at.  And it greps nicely.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)