Mercurial works in Wine

[Adrian Buehlmann]

On 23.06.2008 10:41, Adrian Buehlmann wrote:
> But it's truly amazing that we can use open() like this! I had thought we need
> module win32file for all long path disk io.

This turns out to be true for other Python library functions as well.

I've applied this insight to my winrm script [1] and was able to remove
the dependency on win32file (and thus PyWin32) [2].

[1] http://selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial-devel/2008-June/006812.html
[2] http://www.cadifra.com/cgi-bin/repos/winrm/rev/2c2e3bec219c