In message <20090618081423.2e035...@coercion>, Mike Kazantsev wrote: > On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:33:49 +1200 > Lawrence D'Oliveiro <l...@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> wrote: > >> In message <20090617214535.10866...@coercion>, Mike Kazantsev wrote: >> >>> On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:04:37 +1200 >>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <l...@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> wrote: >>> >>>> In message <20090617142431.2b25f...@malediction>, Mike Kazantsev >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:53:33 +1200 >>>>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <l...@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>> Why not use hex representation of md5/sha1-hashed id as a path, >>>>>>> arranging them like /path/f/9/e/95ea4926a4 ? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> That way, you won't have to deal with many-files-in-path problem >>>>>>> ... >>>>>> >>>>>> Why is that a problem? >>>>> >>>>> So you can os.listdir them? >>>> >>>> Why should you have a problem os.listdir'ing lots of files? >>> >>> I shouldn't, and I don't ;) >> >> Then why did you suggest that there was a problem being able to >> os.listdir them? > > I didn't, OP did ...
Then why did you reply to my question "Why is that a problem?" with "So that you can os.listdir them?", if you didn't think there was a problem (see above)? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
