i can traverse a directory using os.listdir() or os.walk(). but if a directory has a very large number of files, these methods produce very large objects talking a lot of memory.
in other languages one can avoid generating such an object by walking a directory as a liked list. for example, in c, perl or php one can use opendir() and then repeatedly readdir() until getting to the end of the file list. it seems this could be more efficient in some applications. is there a way to do this in python? i'm relatively new to the language. i looked through the documentation and tried googling but came up empty. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
