On 07/14/2014 11:25 PM, Victor Stinner wrote:

Again: remove any garantee about the cache in the definitions of methods,
instead copy the doc from os.path and os. Add a global remark saying that
 most methods don't need any syscall in general, except for symlinks (with
 follow_symlinks=True).

I don't understand what you're saying here. The fact that DirEnrry.is_xxx will use cached values *must* be documented, or our users will waste huge amounts of time trying to figure out why an unknowingly cached value is no longer matching the current status.

~Ethan~
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