Laurie Opperman <laurie_opper...@hotmail.com> added the comment:
Having `iterdir(recursive=True)` recurse into symlinks to directories would mean we would either not yield those symlinks, or we yield those symlinks and all other directories. I feel like not yielding directories is the way to go, but it's easy enough to check if a yielded path is a directory in application code. The current implementation of using recursion to list subdirectory contents doesn't seem to allow for the obvious implementation of symlink cycle-detection: keeping track of which (real) directories have been listed. PS: I've updated the pull-request to not follow symlinks to directories. This is not a final decision, but just updating to be in line with what I've implied up to this point ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue36602> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
