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. :-)
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