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Author loewis
Recipients Arfrever, belopolsky, jcea, khenriksson, lars.gustaebel, loewis, mark.dickinson, nadeem.vawda, r.david.murray, rosslagerwall
Date 2011-06-03.22:12:24
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Am 03.06.2011 22:11, schrieb Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis:
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> Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <Arfrever.FTA@GMail.Com> added the comment:
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> os.utimensat() and os.futimens() already exist since Python 3.3 and require 2-tuples (or None) as second and third argument.

"Already since 3.3" means "they don't exist yet". I.e. it isn't too late
to change them.

> (utime() is deprecated since POSIX 2008: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/utime.h.html)

This is a case where I think Python shouldn't follow POSIX deprecation.
In C, you need to change the function name to change the parameter
types; not so in Python.
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2011-06-03 22:12:25loewissetrecipients: + loewis, jcea, mark.dickinson, belopolsky, lars.gustaebel, nadeem.vawda, Arfrever, r.david.murray, rosslagerwall, khenriksson
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