Ben Hoyt added the comment: Guido, it's true that in almost all cases you get the speedup (no system call), and it's very much worth using. But the idea with the docs being non-committal is because being specific would make the docs fairly complex. I believe it's as follows for is_file/is_dir/is_symlink:
* no system call required on Windows or Unix if the entry is not a symlink * unless you're on Unix with some different file system (maybe a network FS?) where d_type is DT_UNKNOWN * some other edge case which I've probably forgotten :-) Do you think the docs should try to make this more specific? ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue26032> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
