On Tuesday, 29 September 2009 11:03:17 Tim Chase wrote: > I think Steven may be remembering the conversation here on c.l.p > a month or two back where folks were asking to turn os.listdir() > into an iterator (or create an os.xlistdir() or os.iterdir() > function) because directories with lots of files were causing > inordinate slowdown. Yes, listdir() in both 2.x and 3.x both > return lists while such a proposed iterator version could be > changed on the fly by interim file/directory creation.
Is os.walk not the right thing to use for this kind of stuff? - Hendrik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list