sorting directory

[Bengt Richter]

On Tue, 27 May 2003 08:23:41 +0000 (UTC), Duncan Booth <duncan at NOSPAMrcp.co.uk> wrote:

>bokr at oz.net (Bengt Richter) wrote in news:barmqv$6cg$0 at 216.39.172.122:
>
>> for windows NT4, Pythoh 2.2.2 glob.glob seems to return a list that is
>> sorted already, so 
>> 
>>     for path in glob.glob(path_pattern): print path
>> 
>> should do it.
>> 
>Not true. If you are accessing an NTFS disc, the files are always sorted 
>because the directory is stored as a b-tree, however if you access files on 
>a FAT formatted disc you will get them in an arbitrary order.
>
Oops, I only have one rarely-used FAT partition, and didn't look ;-/
I did say, "seems" though ;-)
Thanks for the correction.

Regards,
Bengt Richter