What's the fastest way to recursively search for files in python?

walk.py

# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50948391/whats-the-fastest-way-to-recursively-search-for-files-in-python

import os
import glob

def walk():
    pys = []
    for p, d, f in os.walk('.'):
        for file in f:
            if file.endswith('.py'):
                pys.append(file)
    return pys

def iglob():
    pys = []
    for file in glob.iglob('**/*', recursive=True):
        if file.endswith('.py'):
            pys.append(file)
    return pys

def iglob2():
    pys = []
    for file in glob.iglob('**/*.py', recursive=True):
        pys.append(file)
    return pys

# I also tried pathlib.Path.glob but it was slow and error prone, sadly

%timeit walk()
3.95 s ± 13 ms per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1 loop each)

%timeit iglob()
5.01 s ± 19.2 ms per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1 loop each)

%timeit iglob2()
4.36 s ± 34 ms per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1 loop each)
Using GNU find (4.6.0) on cygwin (4.6.0-1)


"""
$ time find . -name '*.py' > /dev/null

real    0m8.827s
user    0m1.482s
sys     0m7.284s
"""