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Simplest/Idiomatic way to count files in a directory (using pathlib)

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Subject nearly says it all.

If i’m using pathlib, what’s the simplest/idiomatic way to simply count how many files are in a given directory?

I was surprised (at first) when

    len(self.path.iterdir())

I don’t say anything on the in the .stat() object that helps me.

I could of course do the 4 liner:

    count = 0
    for _ in self.path.iterdir():
        count += 1
    return count

The following seems to obtuse/clever for its own good:

    return sum(1 for _ in self.path.iterdir())

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Simplest/Idiomatic way to count files in a directory (using pathlib) Travis Griggs <travisgriggs@gmail.com> - 2015-06-22 15:31 -0700
  Re: Simplest/Idiomatic way to count files in a directory (using pathlib) Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-06-22 18:32 -0700
    Re: Simplest/Idiomatic way to count files in a directory (using pathlib) Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-06-23 12:17 -0400

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