How To Do It Faster?!?

[andrea.gavana at agip.it]

Hello NG,

      in my application, I use os.walk() to walk on a BIG directory. I need
to retrieve the files, in each sub-directory, that are owned by a
particular user. Noting that I am on Windows (2000 or XP), this is what I
do:

for root, dirs, files in os.walk(MyBIGDirectory):

    a = os.popen("dir /q /-c /a-d " + root).read().split()

    # Retrieve all files owners
    user = a[18::20]

    # Retrieve all the last modification dates & hours
    date = a[15::20]
    hours = a[16::20]

    # Retrieve all the filenames
    name = a[19::20]

    # Retrieve all the files sizes
    size = a[17::20]

    # Loop throu all files owners to see if they belong
    # to that particular owner (a string)
    for util in user:
        if util.find(owner) >= 0:
            DO SOME PROCESSING

Does anyone know if there is a faster way to do this job?

Thanks to you all.

Andrea.

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