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Author	tebeka
Recipients	tebeka
Date	2013-10-13.01:42:57
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Message-id	<1381628578.0.0.047697770755.issue19240@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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Currently glob.iglob calls os.listdir internally. Which means that if there are many files in the directory - a big list of them is created in memory. iglob should try to use readdir and be a "true" iterator, not consuming a lot of memory. See one possible implementation using ctypes at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4403598/list-files-in-a-folder-as-a-stream-to-begin-process-immediately

Currently glob.iglob calls os.listdir internally. Which means that if there are many files in the directory - a big list of them is created in memory.

iglob should try to use readdir and be a "true" iterator, not consuming a lot of memory.

See one possible implementation using ctypes at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4403598/list-files-in-a-folder-as-a-stream-to-begin-process-immediately

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