Breaking out of walk()

[Fredrik Lundh]

Gerrit Holl <gerrit.holl at pobox.com> wrote:
> Robert Roy wrote on 948036970:
> > if 'cvs' in names: names.remove('cvs')
> > 
> > will skip over directories named 'cvs'
> 
> It won't:
> >>> l = ['foo', 'cvs', 'bar', 'cvs']
> >>> l.remove('cvs')
> >>> l
> ['foo', 'bar', 'cvs']

it will -- when the walk callback is called, the "names"
argument only contains the files and subdirectories
directly under "dirname"...

(if os.listdir returns duplicates on your computer,
you should fix your operating system)

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