Hi Steven, Thanks for all of the good advice! Much appreciated.
Dusty --- Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Tue, 15 May 2007 17:12:01 -0700, Brian wrote: > >> How do I, in Python, obtain a recursive list of files in a specified >> directory, including the subdirectories, etc? For example, in the old >> MS-DOS days, we could specify at the command prompt "DIR /S" and this >> would provide a listing of all files, including those in subdirectories, >> no matter how far down the branch they were. How can this be done with >> Python? > > In MS DOS days, you were dealing with a small number of files. Python has > to deal with file systems that could contain billions of files. If each > file name has an average of eight characters, your recursive list of > files could require a gigabyte of memory just to hold the file names. (It > might not, of course -- it depends on the file system in use.) > > I suggest you have a look at the os module, in particular os.listdir and > os.walk. > > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
