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In a message of Sun, 07 Jun 2015 12:27:05 +0200, Peter Otten writes:
>> There is no gain to get in standard Python? By switching from fnmatch
>> to re I got almost a speed gain of two. So I was wondering if I could
>> do more.
>
>Just wait for Python 3.5. The switch from os.listdir() to the (new) 
>os.scandir() in the implementation of os.walk() is likely to improve the 
>situation:

Oh cool.  I had no idea.  Thank you for showing us this.
Laura