[Python-Dev] My summary of the scandir (PEP 471) (original) (raw)

Ben Hoyt benhoyt at gmail.com
Tue Jul 1 17:30:37 CEST 2014


No need for a microsecond-timed deletion -- a directory with +r but without +x will allow you to list the entries, but stat calls on the files will fail with EPERM:

Ah -- very good to know, thanks. This definitely points me in the direction of wanting better control over error handling.

Speaking of errors, and thinking of handling errors during iteration -- in what cases (if any) would an individual readdir fail if the opendir succeeded?

-Ben



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