[Python-Dev] Issue 11406: adding os.scandir(), a directory iterator returning stat-like info (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Fri May 10 14:16:22 CEST 2013


Le Fri, 10 May 2013 13:46:30 +0200, Christian Heimes <christian at python.org> a écrit :

Hence I'm +1 on the general idea but -1 on something stat like. IMHO os.scandir() should yield four objects: * name * inode * file type or DTUNKNOWN * statresult or None statresult shall only be returned when the operating systems provides a full stat result as returned by os.stat().

But what if some systems return more than the file type and less than a full stat result? The general problem is POSIX's terrible inertia. I feel that a stat result with some None fields would be an acceptable compromise here.

Regards

Antoine.



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