In message <mailman.1560.1245011753.8015.python-l...@python.org>, Andre Engels wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 6:35 PM, tom<f...@thefsb.org> wrote: > >> in other languages one can avoid generating such an object by walking >> a directory as a liked list. I suppose it depends how well-liked it is. Nerdy lists may work better, but they tend not to be liked. > What kind of directories are those that just a list of files would > result in a "very large" object? I don't think I have ever seen > directories with more than a few thousand files... I worked on an application system which, at one point, routinely dealt with directories containing hundreds of thousands of files. But even that kind of directory contents only adds up to a few megabytes. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
