[Python-Dev] PEP 471 -- os.scandir() function -- a better and faster directory iterator

[Tim Delaney]

On 27 June 2014 09:28, MRAB <python at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:

> Personally, I'd prefer the name 'iterdir' because it emphasises that
> it's an iterator.


Exactly what I was going to post (with the added note that thee's an
obvious symmetry with listdir).

+1 for iterdir rather than scandir

Other than that:

+1 for adding scandir to the stdlib
-1 for windows_wildcard (it would be an attractive nuisance to write
windows-only code)

Tim Delaney
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