list.sort(func) speed

[Michael Peuser]

"Peter Otten" <__peter__ at web.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> You recommend win32api.FindFiles in the old thread, which is non-portable
> but definitely not a "self made scheme". I have to admit the numbers are
> striking. Wild guess: time is burnt reading directories rather than
> processing file name strings. Anyway, standard Python seems to have room
> for improvement in the area :-(
>
One has to be flexible.... I recall a program change I made some weeks ago,
where I changed os.path.splitext(x) into  x[:-4] because I knew the
extension of the some 2000 filenames I wanted to display on a Tk widget.
This improves  display time from 1,3  to 0,7 secs.

Kindly
Michael P