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

[Ethan Furman]

On 07/08/2014 01:22 PM, Ethan Furman wrote:
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> I think caching the attributes for DirEntry is fine, but let's do it as a snapshot of that moment in time, not name now,
> and attributes in 30 minutes when we finally get to you because we had a lot of processing/files ahead of you (you being
> a DirEntry ;) .

This bit is wrong, I think, since scandir is a generator -- there wouldn't be much time passing between the direntry 
call and the stat call in any case.  Hopefully my other points still hold.

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~Ethan~