[New-bugs-announce] [issue26860] os.walk and os.fwalk yield namedtuple instead of tuple

[Aviv Palivoda]

New submission from Aviv Palivoda:

I am suggesting that os.walk and os.fwalk will yield a namedtuple instead of the regular tuple they currently yield.
The use case for this change can be seen in the next example:

def walk_wrapper(walk_it):
    for dir_entry in walk_it:
        if dir_entry[0] == "aaa":
           yield dir_entry

Because walk_it can be either os.walk or os.fwalk I need to access dir_entry via index.

My change will allow me to change this function to:

def walk_wrapper(walk_it):
    for dir_entry in walk_it:
        if dir_entry.dirpath == "aaa":
           yield dir_entry

Witch is more clear and readable.

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components: Library (Lib)
files: os-walk-result-namedtuple.patch
keywords: patch
messages: 264285
nosy: loewis, palaviv
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: os.walk and os.fwalk yield namedtuple instead of tuple
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.6
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file42612/os-walk-result-namedtuple.patch

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