sorting directory

[Duncan Booth]

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.

-- 
Duncan Booth                                             duncan at rcp.co.uk
int month(char *p){return(124864/((p[0]+p[1]-p[2]&0x1f)+1)%12)["\5\x8\3"
"\6\7\xb\1\x9\xa\2\0\4"];} // Who said my code was obscure?