Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettin...@gmail.com> added the comment:
One possibility is a gathering cumulative directory statistics that include totals from all descendants (i.e. how many bytes of files would you save by removing the directory with rm -rf). Outside of aggregating statistics, the normal reason to use topdown=False is when paths are being mutated. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue40160> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com