2014-07-09 22:44 GMT+02:00 Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us>: > On 07/09/2014 01:24 PM, Victor Stinner wrote: >> Sorry, I didn't follow the whole discussion. IMO DirEntry must use >> methods and you should not expose nor document which infos are already >> provided by the OS or not. DirEntry should be a best-effort black-box >> object providing an API similar to pathlib.Path. is_dir() may be fast? >> fine, but don't say it in the documentation because Python must remain >> portable and you should not write code specific to one specific >> platform. > > > Okay, so using that logic we should head over to the os module and remove: > (...)
My comment was specific to the PEP 471, design of the DirEntry class. Victor _______________________________________________ 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
