How to get a directory file descriptor?

[r0g]

Cong Ma wrote:
> r0g wrote:
>> Cong Ma wrote:
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> Can you give me some hint on getting a directory file descriptor in Python?
>>> Besides, what's good about os.fchdir() if I can't get a directory fd in the
>>> first place?
>>>
>>> Thanks for your reply.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Cong.
>>>
>> for each in os.listdir(os.getcwd()):
>>   print each
>>
>> Roger.
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> Roger,
> 
> It seemed I didn't make it clearly enough...
> 
> Your code fetches a bunch of strings representing file names in the working
> directory, which is fine. But what I want is something like an integer file
> descriptor, like the one returned by os.open() for files, or the Linux dirfd()
> call, which returns an integer for a pointer to a DIR stream.
> 
> Regards,
> Cong.
> 

Erm, yeah, that's the os.listdir() bit.

Roger.