[issue11406] There is no os.listdir() equivalent returning generator instead of list

[Martin v. Löwis]

Martin v. Löwis added the comment:

Since this is going to be a new API, I would like to return the file type per directory entry where supported. I suggest to start with the Linux set of file types (DT_BLK, ..., DT_UNKNOWN), perhaps under different names, giving 'unknown' on systems which don't support this.

People traversing a directory tree can then skip the stat call if it's neither 'directory' nor 'unknown'.

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