Georg Brandl wrote: >> Which application needs to walk over ALL files?
How about 'updatedb' for starters, the index-maintainer for the common *nix command-line utility 'locate'. I'm pretty sure that os.walk( ) deals with symbolic links (by not visiting them) and ' /proc' type complexities by not doing anything to walked directories that '/proc' type entries cannot deal with. I think (no sarcasm intended) the point of offering a directory-like interface to '/proc' was so one can perform directory-like operations on it. -- Jonathan Hartley [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44 7737 062 225 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
