> I like the first one best there, but pine for a better way...
Nope, can't find one. Only vile hacks and Vista-or-later functionality.
Personally, I wouldn't object to putting 'N' in the open flags of any long-lived file bazaar uses, and documenting that people should expect things to break with Python < 2.6 if they don't use paramiko. About the only person that'll harm will be me, and I've not run into this bug yet.
> I like the first one best there, but pine for a better way...
Nope, can't find one. Only vile hacks and Vista-or-later functionality.
Personally, I wouldn't object to putting 'N' in the open flags of any long-lived file bazaar uses, and documenting that people should expect things to break with Python < 2.6 if they don't use paramiko. About the only person that'll harm will be me, and I've not run into this bug yet.