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

[Bob Ippolito]

On May 4, 2005, at 5:10 PM, Wolfgang Keller wrote:

>>>>
> Basically _every_ "modern" file system has extended attributes.
>
>>> Another question is if empty xattr dicts should appear on platforms
>>> with no support for them.
>>>
>
>
>> Yes,  they  should  appear  empty,  and  I  would  imagine, throw an
>> Exception on any attempt to set them.
>>
>
> And,  imho, the API (a dict) should be identical on all platforms that
> support EAs, not just on MacOS X.

My implementation is open source and liberally licensed.  Anyone who  
cares about extended attributes on other platforms can feel free to  
submit a patch or fork the code (if I become unresponsive to patches  
or something).  I don't have care about this feature for other  
platforms, so I'm not going to write that code.

-bob