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Author rhettinger
Recipients docs@python, jftuga, python-dev, rhettinger
Date 2020-04-03.21:48:51
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One possibility is a gathering cumulative directory statistics that include totals from all descendants (i.e. how many bytes of files would you save by removing the directory with rm -rf).

Outside of aggregating statistics, the normal reason to use topdown=False is when paths are being mutated.
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