> You have to walk the directory tree and sum each file's size. Windows does this too > - try your right-click properties on a large directory and see how long it takes. > That's also what du does. There are, however, some recipes that should make this > fairly simple for you - try this:
> http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/86554 The above uses os.listdir(), which I've had problems with in the past with huge directories (I can't recall, but I suspect it was simply performance that sucked). Either way, the fastest I've come up with has been based around: for fd in win32file.FindFilesIterator(os.path.join(dir, "*")): name = fd[8] if name in ('.', '..'): continue See the docs for how the 'fd' tuple is laid out. Cheers, Mark _______________________________________________ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
