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

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sat May 11 18:36:28 CEST 2013

On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 2:30 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

Once that core functionality is in place, then start debating what other use cases to optimise based on which platforms would support those optimisations and which would require dropping back to the full stat implementation anyway.

Alternatively, we could simply have a full "dirent" attribute that is None on Windows. That would actually make sense at an implementation level anyway - is_file() etc would check self.cached_lstat first, and if that was None they would check self.dirent, and if that was also None they would raise an error.

Construction of a dir_entry would require either a stat object or a dirent object, but complain if it received both.

Cheers, Nick.

-- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia

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