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| author | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 2016-01-06 19:36:03 (GMT) |
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| committer | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 2016-01-06 19:36:03 (GMT) |
| commit | 1469d744bccbf7c6357bd23f06851d70f538f7e6 (patch) | |
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Cross-reference os.DirEntry and pathlib.Path for issue #22570.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/os.rst b/Doc/library/os.rst index 144d9b2..dcdc4ec 100644 --- a/Doc/library/os.rst +++ b/Doc/library/os.rst @@ -2035,6 +2035,12 @@ features: The result is cached on the ``DirEntry`` object. Call :func:`os.stat` to fetch up-to-date information. + Note that there is a nice correspondence between several attributes + and methods of ``DirEntry`` and of :class:`pathlib.Path`. In + particular, the ``name`` and ``path`` attributes have the same + meaning, as do the ``is_dir()``, ``is_file()``, ``is_symlink()`` + and ``stat()`` methods. + .. versionadded:: 3.5 |