My first use of Python 3's `yield from`!

I never really understood why yield from was useful. Last weekend, I wanted to use Python 3.5's new os.scandir to explore a directory (and its subdirectories). Tragically, os.scandir is not recursive, and I find os.walks 3-tuple values obnoxious. Lo and behold, while I was trying to implement a recursive version of scandir, a yield from use just popped right out!

import os
def rscandir(path):
    for entry in os.scandir(path):
        yield entry
        if entry.is_dir():
            yield from rscandir(entry.path)

That's it! I have to admit that reads wonderfully. The Legacy Python (aka Python 2.x) alternative is quite a bit uglier:

import os
def rscandir(path):
    for p in os.listdir(path):
        yield p
        if os.path.isdir(p):
            for q in rscandir(p):
                yield q

Yuck. So, yet again: time to move away from Legacy Python! ;)