[Python-3000] Removal of os.path.walk

[Guido van Rossum]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 8:10 PM, Tim Heaney <theaney at gmail.com> wrote:
> Speaking of this, is it too late to lobby for an iterator version of
>  os.listdir? (Perhaps listdir would not be the best name. :)
>
>  There is one at
>
>   http://wxidle.sourceforge.net/projects/xlistdir/
>
>  but I think it ought to be in the standard library. Moreover, if we
>  had such a thing, shouldn't os.walk use it instead of lists?

I'm not sure I see the advantage of having it as an iterator; I doubt
that there is ever not enough memory to hold the contents of a single
directory. Do you have a compelling use case?

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