Faster os.walk()

Laszlo Zsolt Nagy gandalf at geochemsource.com
Wed Apr 20 11:47:49 EDT 2005


fuzzylollipop wrote:

>I am trying to get the number of bytes used by files in a directory.
>I am using a large directory ( lots of stuff checked out of multiple
>large cvs repositories ) and there is lots of wasted time doing
>multiple os.stat() on dirs and files from different methods.
>  
>
Do you need a precise value, or are you satisfied with approximations too?
Under which operating system? The 'du' command can be your firend.

man du

Best,

   Laci 2.0



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