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On 4/14/2024 1:46 PM, Lameass Larry Piet wrote:

> Who would love python?  Only a fucking asshole.

Eric Raymond says:

"I noticed (allowing for pauses needed to look up new features in 
Programming Python) I was generating working code nearly as fast as I 
could type."

No wonder Gentoo depends so heavily on Python.

Here's a list of some of the files in a directory:

file_999
file_1000
file_998
file_200
file_2000


How about some of your 'extraordinary' C to read the directory and list 
those files in ascending order (because they need to be processed 
sequentially by nbr)?


yeah, crickets, just like I knew


-------------------------------------------------------------
import os
msgdir = "D:\\"
filearr = []
for pfile in os.listdir(msgdir):
	if '_' in pfile:
		filearr.append(int(str(pfile).split('_')[1]))
for filenbr in sorted(filearr):
	print("file_" + str(filenbr))
print()
for filenbr in reversed(sorted(filearr)):
	print("file_" + str(filenbr))
-------------------------------------------------------------
D:\>python temp.py
file_200
file_998
file_999
file_1000
file_2000

file_2000
file_1000
file_999
file_998
file_200
-------------------------------------------------------------

It can also be done in fewer lines with the glob and regex modules, and 
using list comprehension.

By the way, I have a folder of 191K+ such files, and that code runs in:

D:\>python temp.py
0.13s to read 191490 files
First file is 730478
Last file is  943773



Feeb severely pwned by his own ineptitude
C severely owned by python