dirwalk.py generator version of os.path.walk

[Tom Good]

jimd at vega.starshine.org (Jim Dennis) wrote in message news:<a5mbm7$18vj$1 at news.idiom.com>...
> In article <just-BED145.11365928022002 at news1.xs4all.nl>, Just van Rossum wrote:
> >In article <a5kv49$ae8$2 at news.idiom.com>,
> > jimd at vega.starshine.org (Jim Dennis) wrote:
>  
> >>> I wrote a different implementation of this general concept at:
>  
> >>> http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/105873
>  
> >>> You don't really need to keep a stack of directories and push/pop
> >>> things, because with generators you can recurse instead.
> >>> Tom
>  
>   BTW: Tom, I did come across your version in the ASPN a day or so
>   after I wrote mine.  I agree it looks cleaner and simpler.
>   I might still use a list (FIFO or stack) and while loop instead
>   of the recursion. (see below).
> 

If you've considered both approaches and prefer a non-recursive
implementation, then sure, do it the way you like best.  I wanted to
point out another option in case you hadn't thought of it.

[snip]

>  However, it would be nice if I
>  created a useful Python module which provided all of the power
>  for Python that the "find" command provides to the shell.

That sounds cool.  Post it when you're done :-)



Tom