On 27.06.2014 03:50, MRAB wrote: > On 2014-06-27 02:37, Ben Hoyt wrote: >> I don't mind iterdir() and would take it :-), but I'll just say why I >> chose the name scandir() -- though it wasn't my suggestion originally: >> >> iterdir() sounds like just an iterator version of listdir(), kinda >> like keys() and iterkeys() in Python 2. Whereas in actual fact the >> return values are quite different (DirEntry objects vs strings), and >> so the name change reflects that difference a little. >> > [snip] > > The re module has 'findall', which returns a list of strings, and > 'finditer', which returns an iterator that yields match objects, so > there's a precedent. :-)
A bad precedent in my opinion though -- I was just recently bitten by that, and I find it very untypical for python. regards, Jonas _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
