Reinhold Birkenfeld wrote: > could ildg wrote: > >>I want to check if a folder named "foldername" is empty. >>I use os.listdir(foldername)==[] to do this, >>but it will be very slow if the folder has a lot of sub-files. >>Is there any efficient ways to do this? > > > try: > os.rmdir(path) > empty = True > except OSError: > empty = False > > should be efficient.
But it removes the folder if it is empty. Perhaps it's not efficient to create the folder again. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
