[Python-Dev] os.walk() with followlinks=False (original) (raw)
Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Wed Jan 11 03:25:46 CET 2012
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When discussing http://bugs.python.org/issue13734, Charles-François noted that when os.walk() is called with "followlinks=False", symlinks to directories are still included in the "subdirs" list rather than the "files" list.
This seems rather odd to me, so I'm asking here to see if there's a specific rationale for it, or if it's just an artifact of the implementation.
If it's the latter... could we change it for 3.3, or is that too significant a breach of backwards compatibility?
Even if we can't change os.walk(), does os.walkfd() need to replicate the annoying behaviour for consistency, or can it instead consider such symlinks to be files rather than directories?
Cheers, Nick.
-- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia
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