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| author | Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@gmail.com> | 2015-03-10 12:20:34 (GMT) |
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| committer | Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@gmail.com> | 2015-03-10 12:20:34 (GMT) |
| commit | 524a5ba111e3705c48f2f8fc22f9f0b4b122cae0 (patch) | |
| tree | 5b266eeb7212252f4fa362f6adce0f4aded2a219 /Doc/library/os.rst | |
| parent | 283f3f8ab326bfd43f9c7c7859ae9815a7545b64 (diff) | |
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Issue #23605: os.walk() now calls os.scandir() instead of os.listdir().
The usage of os.scandir() reduces the number of calls to os.stat().
Initial patch written by Ben Hoyt.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/os.rst b/Doc/library/os.rst index 0014b6c..f423f76 100644 --- a/Doc/library/os.rst +++ b/Doc/library/os.rst @@ -2618,6 +2618,11 @@ features: for name in dirs: os.rmdir(os.path.join(root, name)) + .. versionchanged:: 3.5 + The function now calls :func:`os.scandir` instead of :func:`os.listdir`. + The usage of :func:`os.scandir` reduces the number of calls to + :func:`os.stat`. + .. function:: fwalk(top='.', topdown=True, onerror=None, *, follow_symlinks=False, dir_fd=None) |