python3-scandir

Scandir, a better directory iterator and faster oswalk

``scandir()`` is a directory iteration function like ``os.listdir()``, except that instead of returning a list of bare filenames, it yields ``DirEntry`` objects that include file type and stat information along with the name. Using ``scandir()`` increases the speed of ``os.walk()`` by 2-20 times (depending on the platform and file system) by avoiding unnecessary calls to ``os.stat()`` in most cases. ``scandir`` has been included in the Python 3.5 standard library as ``os.scandir()``, and the related performance improvements to ``os.walk()`` have also been included. So if you're lucky enough to be using Python 3.5 (release date September 13, 2015) you get the benefit immediately, otherwise just `download this module from PyPI<https://pypi.python.org/pypi/scandir>`_, install it with ``pip install scandir``, and then do something like this in your code:: try: from os import scandir, walk except ImportError: from scandir import scandir, walk `PEP 471<https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0471/>`_, which is the PEP that proposes including ``scandir`` in the Python standard library, was `accepted<https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2014-July/135561.html>`_ in July 2014 by Victor Stinner, the BDFL-delegate for the PEP. This ``scandir`` module is intended to work on Python 2.6+ and Python 3.2+ (and it has been tested on those versions).

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