On Wed, 22 Jan 2014 18:18:32 -0700, Larry Martell wrote: > The issue is that I run a database query and get back rows, each with > a file path (each in a different dir). And I have to check to see if > that file exists. Each is a separate search with no correlation to the > others. I have the full path, so I guess I'll have to do dir name on > it, then a listdir then compare each item with .lower with my string > .lower. It's just that the dirs have 100's and 100's of files so I'm > really worried about efficiency.
Okay, so it's not Python, and I have the benefit of having read all of the other answers, but what about calling "locate" [0] with the "-i" flag? or writing some sort of Python/ctypes wrapper around the part of locate that searches the database? Dan [0] http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/findutils/ -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
