Gregory P. Smith added the comment:

I'd like to take care of this at Python.  At least for posix (someone else can 
deal with the windows side if they want).

I just stumbled upon an extension module at work that someone wrote 
specifically because os.listdir consumed way too much ram by building up a huge 
list on large directories with tons of long filenames that it needed to 
process.  (when your process is in charge of keeping that directory in check... 
the inability to process it once it grows too large simply isn't acceptable)

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assignee:  -> gregory.p.smith
nosy: +gregory.p.smith
versions: +Python 3.4 -Python 3.3

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