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Re: Re: Iterating over files of a huge directory

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Date Mon, 17 Dec 2012 19:50:53 +0000
Subject Re: Re: Iterating over files of a huge directory
From Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com>
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On 17 December 2012 18:40, Evan Driscoll <driscoll@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

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Iterating over files of a huge directory Gilles Lenfant <gilles.lenfant@gmail.com> - 2012-12-17 07:28 -0800
  Re: Iterating over files of a huge directory Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-12-18 02:41 +1100
    Re: Iterating over files of a huge directory Paul Rudin <paul.nospam@rudin.co.uk> - 2012-12-17 17:27 +0000
      Re: Iterating over files of a huge directory MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2012-12-17 18:29 +0000
      Re: Iterating over files of a huge directory Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-12-18 08:10 +1100
  Re: Iterating over files of a huge directory Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk> - 2012-12-17 15:48 +0000
  Re: Iterating over files of a huge directory Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2012-12-17 15:52 +0000
    Re: Iterating over files of a huge directory Gilles Lenfant <gilles.lenfant@gmail.com> - 2012-12-17 08:06 -0800
    Re: Iterating over files of a huge directory Gilles Lenfant <gilles.lenfant@gmail.com> - 2012-12-17 08:06 -0800
  Re: Iterating over files of a huge directory marduk <marduk@python.net> - 2012-12-17 10:50 -0500
  Re: Re: Iterating over files of a huge directory Evan Driscoll <driscoll@cs.wisc.edu> - 2012-12-17 12:40 -0600
  Re: Re: Iterating over files of a huge directory Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2012-12-17 19:50 +0000
  Re: Iterating over files of a huge directory Evan Driscoll <driscoll@cs.wisc.edu> - 2012-12-17 14:09 -0600
  Re: Iterating over files of a huge directory Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-12-17 16:27 -0500

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