On 27.06.2014 00:59, Ben Hoyt wrote: > Specifics of proposal > ===================== > [snip] Each ``DirEntry`` object has the following > attributes and methods: > [snip] > Notes on caching > ---------------- > > The ``DirEntry`` objects are relatively dumb -- the ``name`` attribute > is obviously always cached, and the ``is_X`` and ``lstat`` methods > cache their values (immediately on Windows via ``FindNextFile``, and > on first use on Linux / OS X via a ``stat`` call) and never refetch > from the system.
I find this behaviour a bit misleading: using methods and have them return cached results. How much (implementation and/or performance and/or memory) overhead would incur by using property-like access here? I think this would underline the static nature of the data. This would break the semantics with respect to pathlib, but they’re only marginally equal anyways -- and as far as I understand it, pathlib won’t cache, so I think this has a fair point here. regards, jwi _______________________________________________ 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
