On 12/17/2012 01:50 PM, Oscar Benjamin wrote: > On 17 December 2012 18:40, Evan Driscoll <drisc...@cs.wisc.edu> wrote: >> On 12/17/2012 09:52 AM, Oscar Benjamin wrote: >>> https://github.com/benhoyt/betterwalk >> >> This is very useful to know about; thanks. >> >> I actually wrote something very similar on my own (I wanted to get >> information about whether each directory entry was a file, directory, >> symlink, etc. without separate stat() calls). > > The initial goal of betterwalk seemed to be the ability to do os.walk > with fewer stat calls. I think the information you want is part of > what betterwalk finds "for free" from the underlying OS iteration > (without the need to call stat()) but I'm not sure.
Yes, that's my impression as well. >> (Also just for the record and anyone looking for other posts, I'd guess >> said discussion was on Python-dev. I don't look at even remotely >> everything on python-list (there's just too much), but I do skim most >> subject lines and I haven't noticed any discussion on it before now.) > > Actually, it was python-ideas: > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.ideas/17932 > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.ideas/17757 Thanks again for the pointers; I'll have to go through that thread. It's possible I can contribute something; it sounds like at least at one point the implementation was ctypes-based and is sometimes slower, and I have both a (now-defunct) C implementation and my current Cython module. Ironically I haven't actually benchmarked mine. :-) Evan
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