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

Victor Stinner victor.stinner at gmail.com
Wed Jul 9 23:38:26 CEST 2014

2014-07-09 22:44 GMT+02:00 Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us>:

On 07/09/2014 01:24 PM, Victor Stinner wrote:

Sorry, I didn't follow the whole discussion. IMO DirEntry must use methods and you should not expose nor document which infos are already provided by the OS or not. DirEntry should be a best-effort black-box object providing an API similar to pathlib.Path. isdir() may be fast? fine, but don't say it in the documentation because Python must remain portable and you should not write code specific to one specific platform.

Okay, so using that logic we should head over to the os module and remove: (...)

My comment was specific to the PEP 471, design of the DirEntry class.

Victor

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