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PyFilesystem 0.3 released

• shykes 16y ago
  This makes it super easy to mock filesystem access when testing your code. It's worth using it for that reason alone.
• BoppreH 16y ago
  If this works on Windows, I'm hooked. How come I didn't read anything about PyFilesystem earlier? It is perfect for both quick and dirty tools and complex applications. EDIT: Ok, I just reached the part of the video where you mount a directory, a virtual folder and the contents of a zip file under the same "mount_fs" object as if it was a folder. This is officially awesome.
  • willm 16y ago
    Works on Windows. :-)
    • koenigdavidmj 16y ago
      I am assuming that exposing a filesystem to the native filesystem via fs.expose.fuse is not going to work in Windows, though?
• BoppreH 16y ago
  I have some questions, but I thought it would be better suited to a new post: - how does this library handles accents and other strange characters? - how much of it is multiplatform? - can it handle files in the internet (aside from the S3 that I've seen it does)? - hows the exception handling/reliability?
  • willm 16y ago
    - how does this library handles accents and other strange characters? Should be unicode throughout. - how much of it is multiplatform? All of it, with the exception perhaps of the fuse support, which requires support on the platform. - can it handle files in the internet (aside from the S3 that I've seen it does)? There's an ftp filesystem, and a XMLRPC server/client filesystem - hows the exception handling/reliability? Care is taken so that the filesystem implementations only throw exceptions derived from FSError. Generally you can also retrieve the original exception from the FSError instance...
• garribas 16y ago
  For those using jvm languages (Jython anyone?), Apache commons VFS provides similar capabilities. http://commons.apache.org/vfs/ http://commons.apache.org/vfs/