ANN: pythonfs - create linux filesystems in python

[David McNab]

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Rene Pijlman wrote:
|>a framework which allows mountable linux filesystems to be
|>implemented in pure python.
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| Serious question: why?

Serious answer - why *not*?

Basically, the 'file/directory' tree paradigm comes in handy in a lot of
different ways. In fact, one of the original Unix claims to fame was and
is the 'everything is a file' concept.

If you look at the LUFS site (lufs.sf.net), you'll see a bunch of
experimental filesystems, including (of all things!) gnutellafs.

So once someone has decided to offer a filesystem interface for
something, it can be an immense boost to be able to implement the thing
in Python, which on average takes a fraction of the time it takes to
write similar in C.

When first learning Python, I had a dramatic experience of Python's
leverage, when I had to implement the same set of functions in Python
and C. They took about 20 minutes to implement and debug in Python, but
over 2 hours in C (even though I worked as a senior C developer for 10
years).

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Kind regards
David

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