Ask HN: What is the best virtual filesystem library you have used?

3 pointsby wynand17년 전4 comments

A recent story (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=741257) mentions that Ruby is ahead of Python in terms of filesystem access. I'd have to agree that Python's file and directory handling could be much better.

Out of all the filesystem libraries (in any language) that you have used, which would you say struck the best balance between ease of use and power? Bonus points if it's a virtual filesystem library.

5 comments

wynand17년 전

There was a comment here about TCL's VFS, which the author removed. I thought it was an excellent pointer, since TCL's system seems very cool. His link was: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-sc12.html?...

pmarin17년 전

Well, I removed the link becouse actually is the only one that I have used so I can't compare it with another one.

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ilyak17년 전

KIO, of course file:// with zip:// http:// is so good that it's used by Konqueror; imap:// and pop3:// if you want them. fish:// for file transfer over SSH (think scp) smb:/ for windows network browsing.

wynand17년 전

KIO is awesome, but I'm looking for something that'll run anywhere, without too many dependencies. If I see something I really like here, I might want to port it to Python at some point.