On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 6:35 PM, tom<[email protected]> wrote: > i can traverse a directory using os.listdir() or os.walk(). but if a > directory has a very large number of files, these methods produce very > large objects talking a lot of memory. > > in other languages one can avoid generating such an object by walking > a directory as a liked list. for example, in c, perl or php one can > use opendir() and then repeatedly readdir() until getting to the end > of the file list. it seems this could be more efficient in some > applications. > > is there a way to do this in python? i'm relatively new to the > language. i looked through the documentation and tried googling but > came up empty.
What kind of directories are those that just a list of files would result in a "very large" object? I don't think I have ever seen directories with more than a few thousand files... -- André Engels, [email protected] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
