Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 471 -- os.scandir() function -- a better and faster directory iterator

On 06/29/2014 05:28 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:

So, here's my alternative proposal: add an "ensure_lstat" flag to scandir() itself, and don't have *any* methods on DirEntry, only attributes.

That would make the DirEntry attributes:

is_dir: boolean, always populated is_file: boolean, always populated is_symlink boolean, always populated lstat_result: stat result, may be None on POSIX systems if ensure_lstat is False

(I'm not particularly sold on "lstat_result" as the name, but "lstat" reads as a verb to me, so doesn't sound right as an attribute name)

+1 -- ~Ethan~