In Java you can do File.listFiles() and receive all of the files in a directory. You can then easily recurse through directory trees. Is there an analogous way to do this in Python? ...
Assuming that the given directory tree is of reasonable size: say an open source project like Twisted or Python, what is the fastest way to traverse and iterate over the absolute path of all files/directories inside that directory? I want to do this from within Python (subprocess is allowed). os.path.walk is slow. So I tried ls -lR and ...