On 3 May 2017 at 06:43, Serhiy Storchaka <storch...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 02.05.17 22:07, Ram Rachum wrote: >> >> I have a suggestion: Add a function shutil.get_dir_size that gets the >> size of a directory, including all the items inside it recursively. I >> currently need this functionality and it looks like I'll have to write >> my own function for it. > > > The comprehensive implementation should take into account hard links, mount > points, variable block sizes, sparse files, transparent files and blocks > compression, file tails packing, blocks deduplication, additional file > streams, file versioning, and many many other FS specific features. If you > implement a module providing this feature, publish it on PyPI and prove its > usefulness for common Python user, it may be considered for inclusion in the > Python standard library.
+1 I would be interested in a pure-Python version of "du", but would expect to see it as a 3rd party module in the first instance (at least until all of the bugs have been thrashed out) rather than being immediately proposed for the stdlib. Paul _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
