how to find a file in remote directory which contains 10000s of files and folders

Question

I have used this below code. But As it contains a lots of files and folders its taking lots of time.

 for localDirname, localDirnames, localFilenames in os.walk('.'):
        for localFilename in localFilenames:
            if  fullFileName == localFilename :
                 print "File found"

Answer 1

If you are not needing to recursively walk a remote directory os.listdir could provide a faster option.

for f in os.listdir('.'):
    if fullFileName in f:
        print "File found"

Answer 2

You can try with open or os.stat . You can also keep a list of folders where it can be for trying each.

Also, it will always be quicker to use @Evert's idea.