[Python-Dev] Caching directory files in import.c (original) (raw)

James C. Ahlstrom jim@interet.com
Wed, 07 Nov 2001 10🔞08 -0500

"James C. Ahlstrom" wrote:

Looking at the code, I saw that I could do an os.listdir(path), and record the directory file names into the same dictionary. Then it would not be necessary to perform a large number of fopen()'s. The same dictionary lookup is used instead.

Well, I didn't get a lot of HellNo's, so I added the code. The new patch for import.c is now part of Patch 476047. There are a lot of other changes too. Please take a look. No, it is not done yet. Don't install it.

JimA