Ulrich Eckhardt wrote: > separate variable but iterated over it directly. For large dirs, it > could also be better to use os.path.walk(), because that doesn't first > build a list and then iterate over the list but iterates over the single > elements directly. This avoids the memory allocation overhead, although > it is unlikely to make a difference in this case and a Premature > Optimization(tm).
Not true. os.walk() uses os.listdir() internally. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
