From 882840936ea16fa283a2dfcef8ad8b6d3fab9f08 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Evert Lammerts <evert.lammerts@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2026 16:24:01 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Remove static pystr

---
 src/duckdb_py/pyfilesystem.cpp | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/duckdb_py/pyfilesystem.cpp b/src/duckdb_py/pyfilesystem.cpp
index 4a891536..4b7112eb 100644
--- a/src/duckdb_py/pyfilesystem.cpp
+++ b/src/duckdb_py/pyfilesystem.cpp
@@ -223,14 +223,12 @@ void PythonFilesystem::CreateDirectory(const string &directory, optional_ptr<Fil
 }
 bool PythonFilesystem::ListFiles(const string &directory, const std::function<void(const string &, bool)> &callback,
                                  FileOpener *opener) {
-	static py::str DIRECTORY("directory");
-
 	D_ASSERT(!py::gil_check());
 	PythonGILWrapper gil;
 	bool nonempty = false;
 
 	for (auto item : filesystem.attr("ls")(py::str(directory))) {
-		bool is_dir = DIRECTORY.equal(item["type"]);
+		bool is_dir = py::cast<std::string>(item["type"]) == "directory";
 		callback(py::str(item["name"]), is_dir);
 		nonempty = true;
 	}