[Tutor] Python Idle Crashing

[Peter Otten]

kyle seebohm wrote:

> I recently created a program that searches through a computer's drive to
> make a list of all the files in that drive. However, the drive I am
> attempting to parse through is extremely large and when I run my program,
> it runs for about 5 or 10 minutes then proceeds to not respond and not
> finish parsing through the entire drive. Is there a way around this or
> does the drive just contain too many files?

What do you want to do with it once the list of files is complete?
Can you process the filenames independently or do you really need them all 
at once?