building a large file

[Emile van Sebille]

Doesn't tar do exactly this?

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Emile van Sebille
emile at fenx.com

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"Thomas Duterme" <thomas at madeforchina.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.987235759.19334.python-list at python.org...
> Hi everyone,
>
> So I need to build a very large file.  Essentially, I need
> to go through a directory and recursively append the
> contents of each file from that directory to a file.
>
> Here's what I'm doing right now:
>
> for x in os.listdir('.'):
> os.system('cat '+x+' >> mylargefile)
>
> Is there any smarter way to do this in python?
>
> Thanks,
> Thomas
>