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Author	serhiy.storchaka
Recipients	Chris.Gerhard, anacrolix, benjamin.peterson, christian.heimes, daniel.urban, georg.brandl, giampaolo.rodola, loewis, pitrou, rosslagerwall, serhiy.storchaka
Date	2012-03-10.17:11:54
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Message-id	<1331399515.55.0.507226520307.issue4761@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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Why use a special value AT_FDCWD instead of None? It is not Pythonish. Clearly, when it is used in C, but in dynamically typed Python we are not limited to only one C-type. Such a large number of new functions littering the namespace. Why not just add additional arguments to existing functions? Instead 'fstatat(dirfd, path, flags=0)' let it be 'stat(path, , dirfd=None, flags=0)' or even better 'stat(path, , dirfd=None, followlinks=True)' (as in os.fwalk).

Why use a special value AT_FDCWD instead of None? It is not Pythonish. Clearly, when it is used in C, but in dynamically typed Python we are not limited to only one C-type. 

Such a large number of new functions littering the namespace. Why not just add additional arguments to existing functions? Instead 'fstatat(dirfd, path, flags=0)' let it be 'stat(path, *, dirfd=None, flags=0)' or even better 'stat(path, *, dirfd=None, followlinks=True)' (as in os.fwalk).

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Date	User	Action	Args
2012-03-10 17:11:55	serhiy.storchaka	set	recipients: + serhiy.storchaka, loewis, georg.brandl, pitrou, giampaolo.rodola, christian.heimes, benjamin.peterson, daniel.urban, anacrolix, Chris.Gerhard, rosslagerwall
2012-03-10 17:11:55	serhiy.storchaka	set	messageid: <1331399515.55.0.507226520307.issue4761@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2012-03-10 17:11:54	serhiy.storchaka	link	issue4761 messages
2012-03-10 17:11:54	serhiy.storchaka	create