In message <20090619134015.349ba...@malediction>, Mike Kazantsev wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:53:40 +1200 > Lawrence D'Oliveiro <l...@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> wrote: > >> In message <20090618081423.2e035...@coercion>, Mike Kazantsev wrote: >> >> > On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:33:49 +1200 >> > Lawrence D'Oliveiro <l...@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> wrote: >> > >> >> In message <20090617214535.10866...@coercion>, Mike Kazantsev >> >> wrote: >> >> >> >>> On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:04:37 +1200 >> >>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <l...@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> wrote: >> >>> >> >>>> In message <20090617142431.2b25f...@malediction>, Mike Kazantsev >> >>>> wrote: >> >>>> >> >>>>> On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:53:33 +1200 >> >>>>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <l...@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> wrote: >> >>>>> >> >>>>>>> Why not use hex representation of md5/sha1-hashed id as a >> >>>>>>> path, arranging them like /path/f/9/e/95ea4926a4 ? >> >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> That way, you won't have to deal with many-files-in-path >> >>>>>>> problem ... >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> Why is that a problem? >> >>>>> >> >>>>> So you can os.listdir them? >> >>>> >> >>>> Why should you have a problem os.listdir'ing lots of files? >> >>> >> >>> I shouldn't, and I don't ;) >> >> >> >> Then why did you suggest that there was a problem being able to >> >> os.listdir them? >> > >> > I didn't, OP did ... >> >> Then why did you reply to my question "Why is that a problem?" with >> "So that you can os.listdir them?", if you didn't think there was a >> problem (see above)? > > Why do you think that if I didn't suggest there is a problem, I think > there is no problem? It wasn't that you didn't suggest there was a problem, but that you suggested a "solution" as though there was a problem. > Why would you want to listdir them? It's a common need, to find out what's in a directory. > I can imagine at least one simple scenario: you had some nasty crash > and you want to check that every file has corresponding, valid db > record. But why would that be relevant to this case? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
