Creating 50K text files in python

[Peter Otten]

venutaurus539 at gmail.com wrote:

> Hello all,
>           I've an application where I need to create 50K files spread
> uniformly across 50 folders in python. The content can be the name of
> file itself repeated 10 times.I wrote a code using normal for loops
> but it is taking hours together for that. Can some one please share
> the code for it using Multithreading. As am new to Python, I know
> little about threading concepts.
> 
> This is my requiremnt:
> 
> C:\TestFolder....
> That folder contains 5 Folders.. Folder1, Folder2, Folder3.....
> Folder5
> Each folder in turn contains 10 folders:
> and Each of those folder contains 1000 text files.
> 
> Please let me know if you are not clear.
> 
> Thank you,
> Venu Madhav.

I've just tried it, creating the 50,000 text files took 17 seconds on my not
very fast machine. Python is certainly not the bottleneck here.

Peter