[New-bugs-announce] [issue27796] Expose DirEntry constructor

[Brendan Moloney]

New submission from Brendan Moloney:

As per a discussion on python-ideas [1], the consensus is that we should allow users to create a DirEntry object themselves. This would just take a path and call stat on it and cache the result of that stat call.

Nick Coghlan mentioned possibly allowing a pre-existing stat result to optionally be passed into the constructor [2].

[1] https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2016-August/041716.html
[2] https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2016-August/041713.html

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messages: 273063
nosy: moloney
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Expose DirEntry constructor
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.6

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