[Python-ideas] find-like functionality in pathlib

[Random832]

On Tue, Jan 5, 2016, at 16:04, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> One problem with stat() caching is that Path objects are considered
> immutable, and two Path objects referring to the same path are completely
> interchangeable. For example, {pathlib.Path('/a'), pathlib.Path('/a')} is
> a set of length 1: {PosixPath('/a')}. But if we had e.g. Path('/a',
> cache_stat=True), the behavior of two instances of that object might be
> observably different (if they were instantiated at times when the
> contents of the filesystem was different). So maybe stat-caching Path instances
> should be considered unequal, or perhaps unhashable. Or perhaps they
> should only be considered equal if their stat() values are actually equal (i.e.
> if the file's stat() info didn't change).

What about a global cache?