[Python-checkins] peps: Make owner() and group() methods, rather than properties.

antoine.pitrou python-checkins at python.org
Mon Nov 18 23:49:06 CET 2013


http://hg.python.org/peps/rev/bf0cb331281b
changeset:   5288:bf0cb331281b
user:        Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net>
date:        Mon Nov 18 23:49:02 2013 +0100
summary:
  Make owner() and group() methods, rather than properties.

It didn't make sense to keep them as properties as all other metadata-querying APIs
are now exposed under the form of methods (e.g. is_dir(), etc.), and there's no
stat() caching anymore.

files:
  pep-0428.txt |  6 +++---
  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)


diff --git a/pep-0428.txt b/pep-0428.txt
--- a/pep-0428.txt
+++ b/pep-0428.txt
@@ -594,12 +594,12 @@
     False
 
 The file owner and group names (rather than numeric ids) are queried
-through matching properties::
+through corresponding methods::
 
     >>> p = Path('/etc/shadow')
-    >>> p.owner
+    >>> p.owner()
     'root'
-    >>> p.group
+    >>> p.group()
     'shadow'
 
 

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Repository URL: http://hg.python.org/peps


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