On Sep 29, 9:32 pm, stdazi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 29, 6:07 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > You did not mention the OS, but because you are using > > "pathname\editfile.txt", it sounds like you are using an MS OS. From > > past experience with various MS OSes, I found that as the number of > > files in a directory increases the slower your process runs for each > > file. > > how so?
Not entirely sure why, but some of the ms docs allude to the fact that there is a linked list involved (at least for fat-style disks). -- bjorn -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list