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On 18/06/2024 16:30, Malcolm McLean wrote:

> And here's a simple task for you. Our filesystem uses a new technology 
> and is a bit dicey. Occasionally you will get a read error. Can you 
> modify the python to print out that a read error has occurred?
> 

The error is in the specification of the task.

If you are trying to suggest that sometimes Python is not a suitable 
language and C might be better for some tasks, then I already know that.

(Mind you, it's quite possible that Python and fuse might be a suitable 
combination for prototyping a filesystem.)