Guido van Rossum added the comment: Ben, I think it's worth calling out what the rules are around symlinks. I'm guessing the info that is initially present is a subset of lstat(), so if that indicates it's a symlink, is_dir() and is_file() will need a stat() call, *unless* follow_symlinks is False.
Another question: for symlinks, there are two different possible stat results: one for stat() and one for lstat(). Are these both cached separately? Or is only one of them? (Experimentally, they are either both cached or the cache remembers the follow_symlinks flag and re-fetches the other result.) Related, "this method always requires a system call", that remark seems to disregard the cache. I'd be happy to review a doc update patch if you make one. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue26032> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
