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Author christian.heimes
Recipients christian.heimes, docs@python
Date 2013-05-07.12:05:20
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Related to #11016
I like to deprecate the S_IF* constants in favor of the S_IS*() functions.

rationals:
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/sys_stat.h.html

No new S_IFMT symbolic names for the file type values of mode_t will be defined by POSIX.1-2008; if new file types are required, they will only be testable through S_ISxx() or S_TYPEISxxx() macros instead.
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