On 17 December 2012 18:40, Evan Driscoll <drisc...@cs.wisc.edu> wrote: > On 12/17/2012 09:52 AM, Oscar Benjamin wrote: >> https://github.com/benhoyt/betterwalk > > This is very useful to know about; thanks. > > I actually wrote something very similar on my own (I wanted to get > information about whether each directory entry was a file, directory, > symlink, etc. without separate stat() calls).
The initial goal of betterwalk seemed to be the ability to do os.walk with fewer stat calls. I think the information you want is part of what betterwalk finds "for free" from the underlying OS iteration (without the need to call stat()) but I'm not sure. > (Also just for the record and anyone looking for other posts, I'd guess > said discussion was on Python-dev. I don't look at even remotely > everything on python-list (there's just too much), but I do skim most > subject lines and I haven't noticed any discussion on it before now.) Actually, it was python-ideas: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.ideas/17932 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.ideas/17757 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
