[Python-Dev] os.walk() is going to be fast with scandir (original) (raw)

Armin Rigo arigo at tunes.org
Sun Aug 10 12:28:25 CEST 2014


Hi Larry,

On 10 August 2014 08:11, Larry Hastings <larry at hastings.org> wrote:

A small tip from my bzr days - cd into the directory before scanning it I doubt that's permissible for a library function like os.scandir().

Indeed, chdir() is notably not compatible with multithreading. There would be a non-portable but clean way to do that: the functions openat() and fstatat(). They only exist on relatively modern Linuxes, though.

A bientôt,

Armin.



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