On 29 June 2014 12:08, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is what makes me wary of including lstat, even though Windows > offers it without the extra stat call. Caching behaviour is *really* > hard to make intuitive, especially when it *sometimes* returns data > that looks fresh (as it on first call on POSIX systems).
If it matters that much we *could* simply call it cached_lstat(). It's ugly, but I really don't like the idea of throwing the information away - after all, the fact that we currently throw data away is why there's even a need for scandir. Let's not make the same mistake again... Paul _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
