2009/5/14 P.J. Eby <p...@telecommunity.com>:
> IOW, this approach keeps simple things simple, and leaves complex things
> possible.  It also does less I/O than what you're proposing, since in the
> normal case the directories are only ever searched once, and the actual
> metadata reads are both lazy and cached.

Makes a lot of sense yes. I think I'll just start a prototype for that
code,  propose 376 on python-dev and see.
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