On 08/09/2013 11:37 PM, John Keyes wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've a small utility that aims to make it easier to search for files
> based on a name, extension, type, size, dimensions, etc. [1][2]
>
> The main function is simply named `find` and it returns a list of file
> paths. I've now added generator support and I'm wondering how to
> expose the functionality.
>
> Right now I have added a named parameter to the find method. So
> find(".", fnmatch="*.png") would return a list of paths to png files,
> and find(".", fnmatch="*.png", generator=True) would return a
> generator. My nose is twitching at the smell of this.
>
>
> Any ideas folks? Naming things is hard.
>
> – John
>
> [1] https://github.com/jkeyes/pathfinder
> [2] https://pathfinder.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
Maybe find() should return a generator by default.
That can be trivially converted to a list() if required.
Pádraig.
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