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| author | Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> | 2017-11-04 12:16:35 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2017-11-04 12:16:35 (GMT) |
| commit | d4d79bc1ff91b04625c312f0219c89aabcd19ce4 (patch) | |
| tree | ba24dc24106347ce69d12d5e27532ccfb929e50e /Doc | |
| parent | 82cd3cede804ca694fb0657fd985d5eff84a414f (diff) | |
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bpo-28564: Use os.scandir() in shutil.rmtree(). (#4085)
This speeds up it to 20-40%.
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst index eb64c6a..d1792dc 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst @@ -440,6 +440,10 @@ Optimizations using the :func:`os.scandir` function. (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`25996`.) +* The :func:`shutil.rmtree` function has been sped up to 20--40%. + This was done using the :func:`os.scandir` function. + (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`28564`.) + * Optimized case-insensitive matching and searching of :mod:`regular expressions <re>`. Searching some patterns can now be up to 20 times faster. (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`30285`.) @@ -656,6 +660,11 @@ Changes in the Python API * ``repr`` for :class:`datetime.timedelta` has changed to include keyword arguments in the output. (Contributed by Utkarsh Upadhyay in :issue:`30302`.) +* Because :func:`shutil.rmtree` is now implemented using the :func:`os.scandir` + function, the user specified handler *onerror* is now called with the first + argument ``os.scandir`` instead of ``os.listdir`` when listing the direcory + is failed. + Changes in the C API -------------------- |