[Python-Dev] Updates to PEP 471, the os.scandir() proposal (original) (raw)

Ethan Furman ethan at stoneleaf.us
Tue Jul 8 23:05:22 CEST 2014

On 07/08/2014 01:22 PM, Ethan Furman wrote:

I think caching the attributes for DirEntry is fine, but let's do it as a snapshot of that moment in time, not name now, and attributes in 30 minutes when we finally get to you because we had a lot of processing/files ahead of you (you being a DirEntry ;) .

This bit is wrong, I think, since scandir is a generator -- there wouldn't be much time passing between the direntry call and the stat call in any case. Hopefully my other points still hold.

-- Ethan

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