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[Python-ideas] os.path.cansymlink(path)

anatoly techtonik techtonik at gmail.com
Fri Jul 25 12:08:23 CEST 2014 
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 8:33 PM, Geoffrey Spear <geoffspear at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 12:51 PM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com> wrote:
>> This is a live code from current virtualenv.py:
>>
>>     if hasattr(os, 'symlink'):
>>         logger.info('Symlinking Python bootstrap modules')
>>
>> This code is wrong, because OS support for
>> symlinks doesn't guarantee that mounted filesystem
>> can do this, resulting in OSError at runtime. So, the
>> proper check would be to check if specific path
>> supports symlinking.
>>
>> The idea is:
>>
>>     os.path.cansymlink(path)  - Return True if filesystem
>>         of specified path can be symlinked.
>>
>> Yes/No/Opinions?
>
> Surely the third-party module you found that wrong code in has their
> own communication channels?

I can't get how does this comment contributes to the idea. Care to
explain?
-- 
anatoly t.
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