> Yes, definitely. This is exactly what my os.walk() replacement, > "Betterwalk", does: > https://github.com/benhoyt/betterwalk#readme > > On Windows you get *all* stat information from iterating the directory > entries (FindFirstFile etc). And on Linux most of the time you get enough > for os.walk() not to need an extra stat (though it does depend on the file > system). > > I still hope to clean up Betterwalk and make a C version so we can use it in > the standard library. In many cases it speeds up os.walk() by several times, > even an order of magnitude in some cases. I intend for it to be a drop-in > replacement for os.walk(), just faster.
Actually, there's Gregory's scandir() implementation (returning a generator to be able to cope with large directories) on it's way: http://bugs.python.org/issue11406 It's already been suggested to make it return a tuple (with d_type). I'm sure a review of the code (especially the Windows implementation) will be welcome. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
