Bruce wrote: > Hi all, > I have a question about traversing file systems, and could use some > help. Because of directories with many files in them, os.walk appears > to be rather slow. I`m thinking there is a potential for speed-up since > I don`t need os.walk to report filenames of all the files in every > directory it visits. Is there some clever way to use os.walk or another > tool that would provide functionality like os.walk except for the > listing of the filenames?
You might want to check out the path module [1] (not os.path). The following is from the docs: > The method path.walk() returns an iterator which steps recursively > through a whole directory tree. path.walkdirs() and path.walkfiles() > are the same, but they yield only the directories and only the files, > respectively. Oh, and you can thank Paul Bissex for pointing me to path [2]. [1]: http://www.jorendorff.com/articles/python/path/ [2]: http://e-scribe.com/news/289 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list