Library for handling extended attributes: xattr vs pyxattr

[pjotrek-b]

I had the honor of getting that answer directly from the original maintainers! 😮 😎

• Iustin Pop: pyxattr
• Bob Ippolito: xattr

My personal takeaway from their insights was:

• xattr seems to be the more popular (supported) one (according to pypistats.org xattr vs pypistats pyxattr:
  Scoreboard "Downloads last week": (both IMO large numbers, considering extended file attributes' current popularity)
  • xattr: 285,980
  • pyxattr: 8,838
• xattr is also built not only for Linux, but also MacOS and FreeBSD (i assume).
• pyxattr originated on Linux, xattr on Mac.
• pyxattr may be deprecated and redirect to xattr?

I have now translated MERCS from pyxattr to xattr (which was quite easy).
I do had problems finding any library-usage documentation, other than the library's code itself.

The code runs perfectly!