[Pythonmac-SIG] MacOS 10.4: getxattr() etc. for Python?

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 4-mei-2005, at 18:00, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>>
>> That's _exactly_ the way it should be done. :-)
>>
>> Dumb  question: How about integrating it "officially" in the  
>> Macpython
>> distribution, so that all file objects on MacOS X.4 automatically  
>> have
>> an xattr dict?
>>
>
> Since that would be a feature addition, it wouldn't be able to
> integrate until Python 2.5 at the earliest.  I don't really see the
> need to add platform-specific things to the file object though.  No
> other platforms do it, and even the HFS stuff you can do with files
> needs to be done with Carbon.File, etc.
>
> In any case, I'd rather take all of the Mac specific stuff *out* of
> the Python standard library than put more in.

Agreed. What's needed is an easy interface for adding 3th party
packages to an installation, something like the CPAN interface of Perl.

That makes it possible to develop python-the-language seperately from
packages without inconveniencing the user too much.

Ronald