On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 8:27 PM, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: > Just wait for Python 3.5. The switch from os.listdir() to the (new) > os.scandir() in the implementation of os.walk() is likely to improve the > situation
Why wait? I've been using 3.5 for ages (and actually, my /usr/local/bin/python3 now announces itself as 3.6), and the betas have been available with all the regular installers. Python betas are pretty stable, and apart from a few glitches with the installers on Windows, I haven't heard any showstopper bugs. Aside from not depending on them for your nuclear power plant safety systems, there's not a lot that the betas can't be used for. Mind you, a lot of the benefit of os.scandir() comes from its behaviour across network mounts and such, which is why you're seeing no more than about a 2:1 difference here. From what I gather, the improvement across network can be simply amazing (because of the way os.listdir has to stat everything separately). ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
