[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello NG,
in my application, I use os.walk() to walk on a BIG directory. I need to retrieve the files, in each sub-directory, that are owned by a particular user. Noting that I am on Windows (2000 or XP), this is what I do:
for root, dirs, files in os.walk(MyBIGDirectory):
a = os.popen("dir /q /-c /a-d " + root).read().split()
....
Does anyone know if there is a faster way to do this job?You can use the stat module to get attributes like last modification date, uid, gid etc. The documentation of the stat module has a nice example. Probably it will be faster because you are running an external program (well, "dir" may be resident but still the OS needs to create a new shell and interpret the parameters on every invocation).
If the speed is the same, you may still want to use the stat module because:
- it is platform independent
- it is independent of any external program (for example, the DIR command can change in the future)
Best,
Laci
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