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Subject: Simplest/Idiomatic way to count files in a directory (using pathlib)
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 15:31:58 -0700
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Subject nearly says it all.

If i=E2=80=99m using pathlib, what=E2=80=99s 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=E2=80=99t say anything on the in the .stat() object that helps me.

I could of course do the 4 liner:

    count =3D 0
    for _ in self.path.iterdir():
        count +=3D 1
    return count

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

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