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

Ethan Furman ethan at stoneleaf.us
Thu Jul 10 19:53:45 CEST 2014


On 07/10/2014 06:58 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:

The info we want for scandir is that of the link itself. That makes it easy to implement things like the "followlinks" flag of os.walk. The far end of the link isn't relevant at this level.

This also mirrors listdir, correct? scandir is simply* returning something smarter than a string.

The docs just need to be clear that DirEntry objects always match lstat(), never stat().

Agreed.

-- Ethan



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