Iterating over files of a huge directory

[Gilles Lenfant]

Le lundi 17 décembre 2012 16:52:19 UTC+1, Oscar Benjamin a écrit :
> On 17 December 2012 15:28, Gilles Lenfant <...> wrote:
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> In the last couple of months there has been a lot of discussion (on
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> python-list or python-dev - not sure) about creating a library to more
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> efficiently iterate over the files in a directory. The result so far
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> is this library on github:
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> https://github.com/benhoyt/betterwalk
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> It says there that
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> """
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> Somewhat relatedly, many people have also asked for a version of
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> os.listdir() that yields filenames as it iterates instead of returning
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> them as one big list.
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> So as well as a faster walk(), BetterWalk adds iterdir_stat() and
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> iterdir(). They're pretty easy to use, but see below for the full API
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> docs.
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> """
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> Does that code work for you? If so, I imagine the author would be
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> interested to get some feedback on how well it works.
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> Alternatively, perhaps consider calling an external utility.
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Many thanks for this pointer Oscar.

"betterwalk" is exactly what I was looking for. More particularly iterdir(...) and iterdir_stat(...)
I'll get a deeper look at betterwalk and provide (hopefully successful) feedback.

Cheers
-- 
Gilles Lenfant