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Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2012 21:18:28 -0400
From: Dave Angel <d@davea.name>
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On 09/06/2012 08:55 PM, ruck wrote:
> (This with Python 2.7.2 on Windows 7)
>
> os.stat() won't recognize a filename ending in period.
> It will ignore trailing periods.  
> If you ask it about file 'goo...' it will report on file 'goo'
> And if 'goo' doesn't exist, os.stat will complain.
>
> create file goo, then
>
>     >>> os.stat('goo')
>     nt.stat_result(st_mode=33206, st_ino=0L, st_dev=0, st_nlink=0, st_uid=0, st_gid=0, st_size=0L, st_atime=1346978160L, st_mtime=1346978160L, st_ctime=1346978160L)
>     >>> os.stat('goo...')
>     nt.stat_result(st_mode=33206, st_ino=0L, st_dev=0, st_nlink=0, st_uid=0, st_gid=0, st_size=0L, st_atime=1346978160L, st_mtime=1346978160L, st_ctime=1346978160L)
>
> rename goo to "goo...", then,
>
>     >>> os.stat('goo...')
>
>     Traceback (most recent call last):
>       File "<pyshell#16>", line 1, in <module>
>         os.stat('goo...')
>     WindowsError: [Error 2] The system cannot find the file specified: 'goo...'
>
> Puzzling, to me at least.
> Any comments?
> This with Python 2.7.2 on Windows 7.
> Is there a workaround?
> Thanks,
> John

FWIW, it seems to work okay here in Linux 11.04, both Python 2.7 and 3.2


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