[Urwid] Re: newbie looks for more examples

[Fabian Braennstroem]

Hi Ian,

* Ian Ward <ian at excess.org> wrote:
> Fabian Braennstroem wrote:
>> Thanks for your help! One major drawback of lfm/curses is
>> the speed: it is pretty slow, when there are a lot of files
>> in a directory. urwid seems to be much faster, at least the
>> browser example looks like that... so it would be a nice
>> project for the urwid package, but my time and knowledge is
>> limited :-(
>
> browse.py doesn't do any stat()'ing of the files in the directory, which 
> might account for the speed difference. Urwid does let you do that 
> lazily (as files appear on screen instead of all at once), so it will 
> seem faster with lots of files.

Maybe, I can do this in lfm too ...
>
> Post any Urwid-specific issues you have to the list and I'll try to help.

Thanks!

Greetings!
 Fabian