</span>
<span class="sd">        follow_links: If true then follow symbolic links when recursively searching the given dataset directory</span>
<span class="sd">        shuffle_index_directory: Path to directory to hold generated index of the dataset</span>
<span class="sd">    Returns:</span>
<span class="sd">        (search_class, list(relative paths),</span>
<span class="sd">        a tuple of the given ``search_class`` and list of file paths relative to the ``base_directory``</span>
<span class="sd">   