Many functions now support "dir_fd" and "follow_symlinks" parameters;
some also support accepting an open file descriptor in place of of a path
string. Added os.support_* collections as LBYL helpers. Removed many
functions only previously seen in 3.3 alpha releases (often starting with
"f" or "l", or ending with "at"). Originally suggested by Serhiy Storchaka;
implemented by Larry Hastings.
There is a rare edge case where the filesystem used by the tempfile functions
(usually /tmp) doesn't support xattrs while the one used by TESTFN (the current
directory, so likely to be below /home) does. This causes the xattr related
test_shutil tests fail. skip_unless_xattr now checks both.
I have also added skip_unless_xattr to __all__ where it has been missing.
This helper was changed to work with any object instead of only modules
(or technically something with a __name__ attribute, see code in 3.2)
but the message stayed as is.
Windows does set the errno attribute to ENOENT, but the error message
displays the Windows error number (3 -> ERROR_PATH_NOT_FOUND), not the
errno number (2 -> ENOENT).
The Unix errno corresponding to 3 is ESRCH, explaining the confusion,
which can be seen in the following snippet:
>>> shutil.rmtree("foo")
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "Z:\default\lib\shutil.py", line 272, in rmtree
onerror(os.listdir, path, sys.exc_info())
File "Z:\default\lib\shutil.py", line 270, in rmtree
names = os.listdir(path)
WindowsError: [Error 3] The system cannot find the path specified:
'foo\\*.*'
>>> e = sys.last_value
>>> e.errno
2
>>> e.winerror
3
>>> errno.errorcode[2]
'ENOENT'
For reference, see PC/errmap.h and
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms681382%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
* Use str.startswith(tuple): I didn't know this Python feature, Python rocks!
* Replace sometimes sys.platform.startswith('linux') with
sys.platform == 'linux'
* sys.platform doesn't contain the major version on Cygwin on Mac OS X
(it's just 'cygwin' and 'darwin')
with the `-m` (or `--match`) option. This works with all test cases
using the unittest module. This is useful with long test suites
such as test_io or test_subprocess.
with the `-m` (or `--match`) option. This works with all test cases
using the unittest module. This is useful with long test suites
such as test_io or test_subprocess.
running in verbose mode (`-v` or `-W`), by using the `--failfast`
(or `-G`) option to regrtest. This is useful with long test suites
such as test_io or test_subprocess.
running in verbose mode (`-v` or `-W`), by using the `--failfast`
(or `-G`) option to regrtest. This is useful with long test suites
such as test_io or test_subprocess.
We don't need to create a temporary buffered binary or text file object just to
create an empty file.
Replace also os.fdopen(handle).close() by os.close(handle).
regrtest doesn't check that tests doesn't write something to stdout anymore.
Don't replace sys.stdout by the original sys.stdout to be able to capture the
output for regrtest -W.
regrtest doesn't check that tests doesn't write something to stdout anymore.
Don't replace sys.stdout by the original sys.stdout to be able to capture the
output for regrtest -W.
Use of DeviceIoControl to obtain the symlink path via the reparse tag was
removed. The code now uses GetFinalPathNameByHandle in the case of a
symbolic link and works properly given the added test which creates a symbolic
link and calls os.stat on it from multiple locations.
Victor Stinner also noticed an issue with os.lstat following the os.stat
code path when being passed bytes. The posix_lstat function was adjusted to
properly hook up win32_lstat instead of the previous STAT macro (win32_stat).
