In message <kck0m.406$ze1....@news-server.bigpond.net.au>, Lie Ryan wrote:
> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > >> ... certainly it is characteristic of GUIs to show you all 400,000 files >> in a directory, or at least try to do so, and either hang for half an >> hour or run out of memory and crash, rather than give you some >> intelligent way of prefiltering the file display up front. > > In many debugging cases, you don't even know what to filter ... So pick a random sample to start with. Do you know of a GUI tool that can do that? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list