file system iteration

[Jonathan Hartley]

Georg Brandl wrote:
 >> Which application needs to walk over ALL files?

How about 'updatedb' for starters, the index-maintainer for the common 
*nix command-line utility 'locate'.

I'm pretty sure that os.walk( ) deals with symbolic links (by not 
visiting them) and ' /proc'  type complexities by not doing anything to 
walked directories that '/proc' type entries cannot deal with. I think 
(no sarcasm intended) the point of offering a directory-like interface 
to '/proc' was so one can perform directory-like operations on it.

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