scandir-rs 0.8.0

A fast directory scanner.

scandir-rs

scandir_rs is a directory iteration module like os.walk(), but with more features and higher speed. Depending on the function call it yields a list of paths, tuple of lists grouped by their entry type or DirEntry objects that include file type and stat information along with the name. Using scandir_rs is about 2-17 times faster than os.walk() (depending on the platform, file system and file tree structure) by parallelizing the iteration in background.

If your are just interested in directory statistics you can use the submodule count.

scandir_rs contains following submodules:

• count for determining statistics of a directory.
• walk for getting names of directory entries.
• scandir for getting detailed stats of directory entries.

For the API see:

• Submodule count doc/count.md
• Submodule walk doc/walk.md
• Submodule scandir doc/scandir.md

Installation

For building this wheel from source you need Rust with channel nightly and the tool maturin.

Switch to channel nightly:

rustup default nightly

Install maturin:

cargo install maturin

Build wheel:

maturin build --release

maturin will build the wheels for all Python versions installed on your system.

Examples

Get statistics of a directory:

import scandir_rs as scandir

print(scandir.count.count("~/workspace", extended=True))

The same, but asynchronously in background using a class instance:

import scandir_rs as scandir

scanner = scandir.count.Count("~/workspace", extended=True))
scanner.start())  # Start background thread pool
...
value = scanner.statistics  # Can be read at any time
...
scanner.stop()  # If you want to cancel the scanner

and with a context manager:

import scandir_rs as scandir

C = scandir.count.Count("~/workspace", extended=True))
with C:
    while C.busy():
        statistics = C.statistics
        # Do something

os.walk() example:

import scandir_rs as scandir

for root, dirs, files in scandir.walk.Walk("~/workspace"):
    # Do something

os.scandir() example:

import scandir_rs as scandir

for entry in scandir.scandir.Scandir("~/workspace", metadata_ext=True):
    # Do something

Benchmarks

See examples/benchmark.py

In the below table the line scandir_rs.walk.Walk returns comparable results to os.walk.

Linux with Ryzen 5 2400G and SSD

Directory ~/workspace with

• 22845 directories
• 321354 files
• 130 symlinks
• 22849 hardlinks
• 4 devices
• 1 pipes
• 4.6GB size and 5.4GB usage on disk

Time [s]	Method
0.547	os.walk (Python 3.7)
0.132	scandir_rs.count.count
0.142	scandir_rs.count.Count
0.237	scandir_rs.walk.Walk
0.224	scandir_rs.walk.toc
0.242	scandir_rs.walk.collect
0.262	scandir_rs.scandir.entries
0.344	scandir_rs.scandir.entries(metadata=True)
0.336	scandir_rs.scandir.entries(metadata_ext=True)
0.280	scandir_rs.scandir.Scandir.collect
0.262	scandir_rs.scandir.Scandir.iter
0.330	scandir_rs.scandir.Scandir.iter(metadata_ext=True)

Up to 2 times faster on Linux.

Windows 10 with Laptop Core i7-4810MQ @ 2.8GHz Laptop, MTF SSD

Directory C:\Windows with

• 84248 directories
• 293108 files
• 44.4GB size and 45.2GB usage on disk

Time [s]	Method
26.881	os.walk (Python 3.7)
4.094	scandir_rs.count.count
3.654	scandir_rs.count.Count
3.978	scandir_rs.walk.Walk
3.848	scandir_rs.walk.toc
3.777	scandir_rs.walk.collect
3.987	scandir_rs.scandir.entries
3.905	scandir_rs.scandir.entries(metadata=True)
4.062	scandir_rs.scandir.entries(metadata_ext=True)
3.934	scandir_rs.scandir.Scandir.collect
3.981	scandir_rs.scandir.Scandir.iter
3.821	scandir_rs.scandir.Scandir.iter(metadata_ext=True)

Up to 6.7 times faster on Windows 10.

Directory C:\testdir with

• 185563 directories
• 1641277 files
• 2696 symlinks
• 97GB size and 100.5GB usage on disk

Time [s]	Method
151.143	os.walk (Python 3.7)
7.549	scandir_rs.count.count
7.531	scandir_rs.count.Count
8.710	scandir_rs.walk.Walk
8.625	scandir_rs.walk.toc
8.599	scandir_rs.walk.collect
9.014	scandir_rs.scandir.entries
9.208	scandir_rs.scandir.entries(metadata=True)
8.925	scandir_rs.scandir.entries(metadata_ext=True)
9.243	scandir_rs.scandir.Scandir.collect
8.462	scandir_rs.scandir.Scandir.iter
8.380	scandir_rs.scandir.Scandir.iter(metadata_ext=True)

Up to 17.4 times faster on Windows 10.