On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 8:10 PM, Tim Heaney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Speaking of this, is it too late to lobby for an iterator version of > os.listdir? (Perhaps listdir would not be the best name. :) > > There is one at > > http://wxidle.sourceforge.net/projects/xlistdir/ > > but I think it ought to be in the standard library. Moreover, if we > had such a thing, shouldn't os.walk use it instead of lists?
I'm not sure I see the advantage of having it as an iterator; I doubt that there is ever not enough memory to hold the contents of a single directory. Do you have a compelling use case? -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
