Ben Hoyt benhoyt at gmail.com
Tue Jul 22 04:32:10 CEST 2014

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> We should mimic os.stat() and os.stat_result: os.stat_result symbol
> exists in the os namespace, but the type constructor is not
> documented. No need for extra protection like not adding the type in
> the os module, or adding a "_" prefix to the name.

Yeah, that works for me.

> By the way, it's possible to serialize a stat_result with pickle.

That makes sense, as stat_result is basically just a tuple and a bit
extra. I wonder if it should be possible to pickle DirEntry objects?
I'm thinking possibly not. If so, would it cache the stat or file type
info?

-Ben

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