Its important to keep in mind the main benefit of scandir is you don't have to do ANY stat call in many cases, because the directory listing provides some subset of this info. On Linux you can at least tell if a path is a file or directory. On windows there is much more info provided by the directory listing. Avoiding subsequent stat calls is also nice, but not nearly as important due to OS level caching. Brendan Moloney Research Associate Advanced Imaging Research Center Oregon Health Science University ________________________________ From: Python-ideas [python-ideas-bounces+moloney=ohsu.edu@python.org] on behalf of Guido van Rossum [guido@python.org] Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2016 2:42 PM To: Random832 Cc: Python-Ideas Subject: Re: [Python-ideas] find-like functionality in pathlib I couldn't help myself and coded up a prototype for the StatCache design I sketched. See http://bugs.python.org/issue26031. Feedback welcome! On my Mac it only seems to offer limited benefits though...