I’d like to propose an enhancement to the wonderful pathlib module: make
Path instances iterable, where the iterator returns subpaths.
This would be functionally very similar to Path(some_directory).rglob(‘*’).
Why not just use rglob(‘*’)?
While globs are an extremely useful shorthand, in my experience they’re a
bit of an artifact of Unix shells that programmers frequently aren’t aware
of or don’t understand. Python does a great job of distilling the concept
of what it means to iterate over an object. IO objects come to mind, where
[line for line in sys.stdin] very intuitively iterates through each line of
input. I believe making Path iterable over its sub paths provides a
similarly intuitive concept of iterating over a path.
Strawman implementation:
class Path:
# ...
def __iter__(self):
return self.rglob('*')
Questions:
If this were added, where in the Path class hierarchy[1] would it belong?
[1]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/pathlib.html#module-pathlib
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