reading directory entries one by one

[Michael P. Soulier]

    Greetings. 

    I'm aware that one can iterate over a directory's contents via the
listdir() function in the os module. 

    for file in os.listdir(dir):

    However, this does read in the entire directory into memory. As a C coder,
I can opendir and readdir and iterate the directory file by file, in case
sucking the entire thing into memory would be too resource intensive on large
directories. Is there such an option for Python?

    Thanks,

    Mike

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