newb question: file searching

[infidel]

> Also, I've noticed that files are being found within hidden
> directories.  I'd like to exclude hidden directories from the walk, or
> at least not add anything within them.  Any advice?

The second item in the tuple yielded by os.walk() is a list of
subdirectories inside the directory indicated by the first item in the
tuple.  You can remove values from this list at runtime to have os.walk
skip over them.