Serhiy Storchaka <storch...@gmail.com> added the comment: > On Unix, doing os.stat > on the directory, then looking on st_nlink, will tell you whether > the directory is empty (st_nlink is 2 on an empty directory).
Directory with st_nlink==2 can contains any number of non-directory files. And one subdirectory if this directory is root. ---------- nosy: +storchaka _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue11406> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com