guido van rossum hoaufpythonorg wed apr 30 2008 748 aahz wrote tue apr 29 2008 guido van rossum wrote tue apr 29 2008 810 pm tim heaney wrote speaking late lobby iterator version oslistdir perhaps listdir would best name one httpwxidlesourceforgenetprojectsxlistdir think ought standard library moreover thing shouldnt oswalk use instead lists im sure see advantage iterator doubt ever enough memory hold contents single directory compelling use case theres big difference enough memory directory consumes lots memory company directories several hundred thousand entries using iterator would appreciated although time upgrade python 3x probably fixed architecture even talking tens megabytes worst killer painful wow filesystem isnt impossibly slow accessing last file directory anyway id fine separate osopendir call returns iterator iterator object also optional close method explicitly frees underlying file descriptor whatever used windows dont think changing oslistdir worth pain going cause guido van rossum home page httpwwwpythonorgguido _______________________________________________ python3000 mailing list smsbmo9552pythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopython3000 unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspython3000python300040tangomucom thu 07 aug 2008 215421 0700 python3000 removal ospathwalk