Torsten Landschoff <t.landsch...@gmx.net> added the comment: I would regard this as Type: resource usage, instead of performance. Given enough RAM, loading the whole directory at once will likely be faster.
The downsides of os.listdir: a) You can't get a peek at the files so far, it's all or nothing. I only wanted to know if a directory is empty and I have to read the whole thing just to throw it away (maybe I missed another library function?) b) Using it in a GUI basically requires you to use threads if you may run into a dir with many files. Especially on a slow filesystem (network). Because you won't regain control until the whole thing is read. I would like to have an iterator version as well, but I also dislike another function (especially the "x" prefix). How about adding a keyword argument to select iterator behaviour? ---------- nosy: +torsten _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue11406> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
