Okay, I've renamed my "BetterWalk" module to "scandir" and updated it as per our discussion:
https://github.com/benhoyt/scandir/#readme It's not yet production-ready, and is basically still in API and performance testing stage. For instance, the underlying scandir_helper functions don't even return iterators yet -- they're just glorified versions of os.listdir() that return an additional d_ino/d_type (Linux) or stat_result (Windows). In any case, I really like the API (thanks mostly to Nick Coghlan), and performance is great, even with DirEntry being written in Python. PERFORMANCE: On Windows I'm seeing that scandir.walk() on a large test tree (see benchmark.py) is 8-9 times faster than os.walk(), and on Linux it's 3-4 times faster. Yes, it is that much faster, and yes, those numbers are real. :-) Please critique away. At this stage it'd be most helpful to critique any API or performance-related issues rather than coding style or minor bugs, as I'm expecting the code itself will change quite a bit still. Todos: * Make _scandir.scandir_helper functions return real iterators instead of lists * Move building of DirEntry objects into C module, so basically the entire scandir() is in C * Add tests -Ben _______________________________________________ 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
