listdir() - any way to limit # of file entries?

[Roger Upole]

You can use win32file.FindFilesIterator to loop thru the files
without creating a huge list of everthing in the folder.

       hth
          Roger

"Peter A. Schott" <paschott at no.yahoo.spamm.com> wrote in message news:bunpv1pafuserji1bjft3146c7833h1pu9 at 4ax.com...
>I want to build a program that does some archiving.  We have several programs
> that have been dumping files into a folder (one folder) for some time now.  I
> want to limit the number of files returned by listdir to avoid trying to build a
> list with tons of entries.  I then want to move those files into a zip archive
> for the appropriate day/month.
>
> Is there any way to build a list of the first 1000 files or so in a folder?
>
> Running Python 2.4.2 on Win32 with Win32 extensions.
>
> Thanks.
>
> -Pete Schott 



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