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From: Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Simplest/Idiomatic way to count files in a directory (using pathlib)
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 18:32:52 -0700
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Travis Griggs <travisgriggs@gmail.com> writes:
> The following seems to obtuse/clever for its own good:
>     return sum(1 for _ in self.path.iterdir())

I've generally done something like that.  I suppose it could be added to
itertools.