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Author pitrou
Recipients Arfrever, barry, brett.cannon, eric.snow, ncoghlan, neologix, pitrou, python-dev
Date 2012-01-13.17:05:38
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> One is possibly deprecating path_mtime() so people don't waste time
> implementing it (we actually never need to remove it thanks to the
> ABC; otherwise we need to make sure the docs strongly state to only
> bother with path_stats()).

Ok, I saw I also forgot to update some importlib docs.

> The other is to say the mtime key should contain a value that is a
> real number (ie. float and any other numeric type that can cast to an
> integer).

Ok.

> And is there any efficient way to get the stat info on a file AND its
> contents in a single call?

I don't think so.  os.fstat() on an open fd looks minimally faster than
os.stat() on the filename (0.5µs faster here on Linux), but opening the
file has its own cost.
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Date User Action Args
2012-01-13 17:09:16pitrousetrecipients: + pitrou, barry, brett.cannon, ncoghlan, Arfrever, neologix, python-dev, eric.snow
2012-01-13 17:05:38pitroulinkissue13645 messages
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