Fw: [issue22167] iglob() has misleading documentation (does indeed store names internally)

[Paul Moore]

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Paul

On 17 February 2018 at 13:47, Tim Chase <python.list at tim.thechases.com> wrote:
> Has anybody else been getting unexpected/unsolicited emails from the
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>
> I'm not associated with (didn't submit/lurk/follow/sign-up-for) this
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> particular issue.  I've now received two notifications (both on this
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> I *am* in the Python Bugs DB associated with other issues, I'm just
> confused how I ended up attached to this bug.  Anybody else either
> receiving unsolicited bug notifications or happen to know how/why I'm
> getting these?
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> Thanks,
>
> -tkc
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> Begin forwarded message:
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> Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2018 08:09:23 +0000
> From: Serhiy Storchaka <report at bugs.python.org>
> To: python.bugs@[redacted]
> Subject: [issue22167] iglob() has misleading documentation (does
> indeed store names internally)
>
>
> Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka+cpython at gmail.com> added the comment:
>
> Unfortunately issue25596 didn't change anything about this issue.
> iglob() still stores names (actually DirEntry objects) of all files
> in a directory before starting yielding the first of them. Otherwise
> we cold exceed the limit of open file descriptors.
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