[issue11406] There is no os.listdir() equivalent returning generator instead of list

[Марк Коренберг]

Марк Коренберг <socketpair at gmail.com> added the comment:

> -1 on going back through blah/xblah all over again.

Originally, I want return value of listdir to be changed from list to generator. But next, I thought about compatibility. It will break some code. For example, SimpleHTTPServer:

list = os.listdir(path)
list.sort(key=lambda a: a.lower())

will not work.

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