How to get a directory file descriptor?

[D'Arcy J.M. Cain]

On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:02:56 +0800
Cong Ma <cma at mail.bnu.edu.cn> wrote:
> >> Can you give me some hint on getting a directory file descriptor in Python?
> > for each in os.listdir(os.getcwd()):
> >   print each
> 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.

Is this what you want?

ofiles = [open(x) for x in os.listdir(os.getcwd())]

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