STINNER Victor added the comment: Yeah, it was discussed when the PEP 471 was designed, but it was already hard to design os.scandir() without supporting fd as os.scandir() parameter.
It's more complex because we have to handle the lifetime of the file descriptor especially if it's exposed in a public attribute. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue25996> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
