On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:25:46 +1000 Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > When discussing http://bugs.python.org/issue13734, Charles-François > noted that when os.walk() is called with "followlinks=False", symlinks > to directories are still included in the "subdirs" list rather than > the "files" list. > > This seems rather odd to me, so I'm asking here to see if there's a > specific rationale for it, or if it's just an artifact of the > implementation. > > If it's the latter... could we change it for 3.3, or is that too > significant a breach of backwards compatibility?
I think we could change it. > Even if we can't change os.walk(), does os.walkfd() need to replicate > the annoying behaviour for consistency, or can it instead consider > such symlinks to be files rather than directories? IMO walkfd() should do the right thing. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
