On Jan 31, 2:44 pm, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote:
> Kyp wrote:
> > I have a dir with a large # of files that I need to perform operations
> > on, but only needing to access a subset of the files, i.e. the first
> > 100 files.
>
> > Using glob is ver
On Jan 31, 1:06 pm, John Bokma wrote:
> Kyp writes:
> > Is there a way to get the first X # of files from a dir with lots of
> > files, that does not take a long time to run?
>
> Assuming Linux: what does time
>
> ls thedir | head
>
> give?
>
> with th
I have a dir with a large # of files that I need to perform operations
on, but only needing to access a subset of the files, i.e. the first
100 files.
Using glob is very slow, so I ran across iglob, which returns an
iterator, which seemed just like what I wanted. I could iterate over
the files tha
