Antoon,
On 12/23/23 01:00, Antoon Pardon via Python-list wrote:
I am writing a program that goes through file hierarchies and I am mostly
using scandir for that which produces DirEntry instances.
At times it would be usefull if I could make my own DirEntry for a specific
path, however when I try, I get the following diagnostic:
os.DirEntry('snap')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: cannot create 'posix.DirEntry' instances
Does anyone have an idea for why this limitation and how to go around it.
At this moment I don't consider pathlib very usefull, it lacks the
follow_symlinks parameter in the is_dir, is_file, ... methods.
Can't recall ever trying this.
The manual (https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.html#os.DirEntry)
suggests that a DirEntry is one of those Python data-constructs which it
creates, but we may only use: "cannot create".
Secondly, that a DirEntry object consists of a lot more than the
directory-name, eg its path.
Thirdly, that os.scandir() deals (only) with concrete directories -
unlike pathlib's ability to work with both the real thing and abstract
files/dirs.
Why create a DirEntry? Why not go directly to os.mkdir() or whatever?
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