os.listdir iterator

I found an iterator version of os.listdir for POSIX(?) systems, but I needed one for Windows. Specifically to check if a directory has subdirectories.

import win32file import pywintypes def has_subdirectories(path): try: for info in win32file.FindFilesIterator(os.path.join(path, "*")): if info[0] & win32file.FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY and info[-2] not in [".", ".."]: return True except pywintypes.error: # access denied pass return False

Characterizing People as Non-Linear, First-Order Components in Software Development

Alistair Cockburn has written a lot of very interesting articles but I have to agree with John Carter on Lambda the Ultimate when he called this one his "absolute favourite paper in all the CS literature".