[issue36602] Recursive directory list with pathlib.Path.iterdir

[Steve Dower]

Steve Dower <steve.dower at python.org> added the comment:

Having spent more time than I'm proud of recursing through directories, I'd be happy enough with a convenience function that has sensible defaults.

If I want breadth-first recursion (and I often do), I'll write it myself. I have a slight preference for getting all files in a directory before going deeper (which is not what the PR does), and I think that's most consistent with the current behaviour.

I don't spend enough time dealing with symlinks to have strong opinions there, but given we have ways to resolve symlinks but not to get back to the original name (and I *have* had to deal with issues where I've needed to find the original name from the target :roll-eyes:) I'd say don't resolve anything eagerly.

If there's an easy and well-known algorithm for detecting infinite symlink recursion (e.g. resolve and check if it's a parent of itself) then do that and skip it, but don't return the targets.

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nosy: +steve.dower

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