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

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<I should proof my posts before I send them, sorry>

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())

didn’t work.

I don’t see anything 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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Re: Simplest/Idiomatic way to count files in a directory (using pathlib) Travis Griggs <travisgriggs@gmail.com> - 2015-06-22 15:33 -0700

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