[Tutor] Recursive search

[sessile@in-gen.net]

Hello,

I am reading a configuration file that can point to other
configuration files with a similar format.  Each of those
files can call other such files and so on.  Given the first
file, I would like to build a list of all the config files.
I thought a recursive function would do the trick, but I
don't appear to be saving the list of configs properly.

The files may be out of date so I need to test for thier
existance.

The code below seems to print the files out correctly,
but the "configs" list remains empty.  Advice appreciated!


Example files:

<file "config.1">

!This is a comment.
include /path/to/some/file
include /path/to/config.2

=====

<file "config.2">
include /bad/file
include /yet/another/file

=====

def getConfigs(file):
    configs = []
    if not os.path.isfile(file):
        print "Not a file: %s" % file
    else:
        for line in open(file,"r").readlines():
            split = map(string.strip, string.split(line))
            try:
                split[0]
            except IndexError:
                pass
            else:
                if split[0] == "include":
                    print split[-1]
                    configs.getConfigs(split[-1])
    return configs

myconfigs = getConfigs(myconfigfile)


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