Need a recursion lesson

[Robert Roy]

On Wed, 22 Dec 1999 03:33:44 +0100, "Eide" <nickliz at t-online.de>
wrote:

>Hello,
>I would like to do a search for file types, and I figure a good way to do it
>would be with recursion...  compare a sliced 'file[:-6]' of each item in
>list from a directory.  And if there is another directory in that list to do
>a listdir on it and .... My head is spinning already.
>I have no clue what I'm doing. Does anyone have any pointers to about how to
>walk through something like this? Any help would be a lot.
>
>Nick
>
>
No need to re-invent the wheel, see the os.path module

import os

def visit(arg, dirname, names):
    print dirname
    for fn in names:
        name, ext = os.path.splitext(fn)
        print ext
    
os.path.walk('c:/temp',visit, ())