changeset:   99788:eab349b5c6d7
branch:      3.5
user:        Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
date:        Wed Jan 06 11:36:03 2016 -0800
files:       Doc/library/os.rst Doc/library/pathlib.rst
description:
Cross-reference os.DirEntry and pathlib.Path for issue #22570.


diff -r 1a6b485e717f -r eab349b5c6d7 Doc/library/os.rst
--- a/Doc/library/os.rst	Wed Jan 06 11:26:36 2016 -0800
+++ b/Doc/library/os.rst	Wed Jan 06 11:36:03 2016 -0800
@@ -2035,6 +2035,12 @@
       The result is cached on the ``DirEntry`` object. Call :func:`os.stat`
       to fetch up-to-date information.
 
+   Note that there is a nice correspondence between several attributes
+   and methods of ``DirEntry`` and of :class:`pathlib.Path`.  In
+   particular, the ``name`` and ``path`` attributes have the same
+   meaning, as do the ``is_dir()``, ``is_file()``, ``is_symlink()``
+   and ``stat()`` methods.
+
    .. versionadded:: 3.5
 
 
diff -r 1a6b485e717f -r eab349b5c6d7 Doc/library/pathlib.rst
--- a/Doc/library/pathlib.rst	Wed Jan 06 11:26:36 2016 -0800
+++ b/Doc/library/pathlib.rst	Wed Jan 06 11:36:03 2016 -0800
@@ -381,7 +381,11 @@
    ``arg = str(arg)``, this will still raise an exception if an object
    of some other type is given by accident.
 
+   A nice advantage is that this protocol is also supported by
+   :class:`os.DirEntry` objects returned by :func:`os.scandir`.
+
    .. versionadded:: 3.4.5
+   .. versionadded:: 3.5.2
 
 .. data:: PurePath.suffix