[Python-Dev] PEP 376

[Tarek Ziadé]

2009/6/22 P.J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com>:
> At 05:42 PM 6/22/2009 +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>>
>> Wouldn't it be better to use the native line terminator on the current
>> platform? (someone might want to edit or at least view the file)
>>
>>
>> Good idea, I'll change that,
>>
>
> As long as the file is always *read* with "U" mode, so that you can't mess
> it up, especially if the install is to a directory shared between platforms.

Adding that too, thanks;

>
>
>> The idea of this API is to find out of a distribution "owns" a file, e.g.
>> is the only distribution
>> that uses it, so it can be safely removed.
>
> This could equally well be done by ``owners(path)``, returning a sequence of
> zero or more items.  Any length <> 1 means the file can't be safely removed.
>  Meanwhile, having the data about all the owners of a file would also be
> useful for tools that just want to inspect a directory's contents, for
> example, or to detect conflicts and overwrites.

that's basically what "get_file_users" does except it's an iterator,

roughly that would be :

def get_file_owners(path):
    return list(get_file_users(paths))

So I am wondering if it worth having it....



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