Re: is anyone using return_folders in tools.Walk()?

"Will Guaraldi" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.pyblosxom.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
(taking jens and uche off the list--this is more of a pyblosxom-devel
discussion).

On 7/5/07, Ryan Barrett <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, Will Guaraldi wrote:
>
> > Are you sure about that? I didn't think the stat'ing was done in tools.Walk.
> > Walk will walk the directory tree twice, but I don't see it stat'ing things.
>
> it calls os.path.isfile(), islink(), and isdir() (twice) on each result path
> that os.listdir() returns. all of those most likely stat the underlying file
> or directory, unless there's magic i'm unaware of. :P

Oh, you're totally right.  I thought you were talking about our filestat'ing.

Yeah--that toolks.Walk is crazy!  We should refactor that because it's
silly that we're doing what we're doing.

Two thoughts (off the top of my head): we should switch to os.walk
(introduced in 2.3) or we should stat the thing ourselves and check
the stat data to figure out whether it's a file or a dir or whatever.
Personally, I'm voting for upping our Python requirement to 2.3 and
switching to os.walk--I think it'll reduce the complexity of the code.

/will

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