[Python-Dev] os.walk() with followlinks=False (original) (raw)
Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Wed Jan 11 15:54:05 CET 2012
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On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:25:46 +1000 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
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?
I think we could change it.
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?
IMO walkfd() should do the right thing.
Regards
Antoine.
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