[Python-ideas] Enhanced stat_result objects (was: Better stdlib support for Path objects)

[Tim Delaney]

On 8 October 2014 01:08, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:

> I would find it really useful if stat_result objects supported the
> various is_XXX methods from pathlib. Then I could write code like:
>
>     p = Path(...)
>     st = p.stat()
>     if st.exists():
>         ...
>     elif st.is_dir():
>         ...
>
> which explicitly shows that stat is only called once, but doesn't
> involve verbose and ugly code like
>
>     if stat.S_ISDIR(st.st_mode):
>         ...
>
> Would this be a worthwhile addition?
>

+1

Then Path, DirEntry (from scandir) and stat_result objects would all
support the same API.

DirEntry.is_dir() and .is_file() methods have an optional follow_symlinks
parameter - I'm thinking Path should follow suit. Obviously stat_result
would not.

Tim Delaney
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