Vetoshkin Nikita <nikita.vetosh...@gmail.com> added the comment: >We could, but someone must: >1) provide a patch While working on a straightforward patch for linux, I had to make a lot of copy-paste job. posixmodule.c is quite a mess already :( >2) demonstrate a significant improvement in some real-world situation suppose we have a directory with several millions of files and a cron script which must process just a bunch of them at a time. There's no need to gather them all. As mmarkk mentioned - readdir already provides generator style access to the directory contents, it could be nice to provide such API in Python.
http://pastebin.com/NCGmfF49 - here's a kind of test (cached and uncached) http://pastebin.com/tTKRTiNc - here's a testcase for batch processing of directory contenst (first is xlistdir(), second - listdir()) both uncached. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue11406> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
