ANN: pythonfs - create linux filesystems in python
Peter Hansen
peter at engcorp.com
Mon Dec 8 13:49:54 EST 2003
Rene Pijlman wrote:
>
> David McNab:
> >a framework which allows mountable linux filesystems to be
> >implemented in pure python.
>
> Serious question: why?
Just thought of another possibility: might be useful for doing
unit testing where one could use the Python-based filesystem to
mock a real filesystem, but simulate certain particularly difficult
kinds of errors (corruption, files that go missing, invalid file names)
that might happen in extreme situations.
-Peter
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