[Tutor] monitor number of files in a folder

[pedro]

On 2009-08-06 17:25:50 -0400, Νικόλαος Ράπτης <airscorp at otenet.gr> said:

> Well, os.listdir doesn't include "." or ".." anyway as you can see here

On my machine (a Mac), os.listdir does include files that begin with 
"." Having the while loop timeout after 10 or 20 times through as was 
suggested a couple posts back will work fine for my particular 
situation.
Thanks