python3-xattr has an xattr class that can be used like a dict (and
thus call .items() to behave like pyxattr's xattr.get_all()). A
wrapper function like this would work:
def xattr_get_all(path):
try:
return xattr.get_all(path)
except AttributeError:
return xattr.xattr(path).items()
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dwfreed