Walk thru each subdirectory from a top directory

[Jeff McNeil]

Isn't this something that os.walk would be good for?

import os
for t in os.walk(base_dir):
     for f in t[2]:
	print "/".join((t[0], f))

Jeff

On Feb 26, 2007, at 4:42 PM, Sick Monkey wrote:

> I had a do something similar.  I had to get a program to traverse  
> through a directory and delete all files with a specific file  
> extension.  (The program below will delete files, so I do not  
> recommend you running it without paying close attention to it.)
>
> This program will start at a given directory and will traverse thru  
> the subdirectories by using "listdir".
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> #!/usr/bin/python -u
>
> import sys, time
> from os import listdir, unlink
> from os.path import isdir, isfile, islink, join, getmtime
> deldir = "C:\some\Dir"
> delFileType = ".txt"
> # -------------------------------------
> def del_entry(_name):
>         try:
>                 if isdir(_name):
>                         print "This is a directory, do nothing."
>                 else:
>                         #print "now"
>                         unlink(_name) # or remove(_name)
>                         sys.stdout.write("Delete FILE %s\n" % (_name))
>         except IOError:
>                 sys.stderr.write("Cannot delete %s\n" % (_name))
> # -------------------------------------
> def list_dir(_dir,_action):
>         if not isdir(_dir):
>                 print "%s is not a directory" % (_dir)
>                 return
>
>         for file in listdir(_dir):
>                 path = join(_dir, file)
>                 if isdir(path):
>                         list_dir(path, _action)
>                 else:
>                         if path.rfind(delFileType) != -1:
>                                 #print path
>                                 _action(path)
> # -------------------------------------
> # Run it
> list_dir(deldir, del_entry)
>
> On 26 Feb 2007 13:28:20 -0800, silverburgh.meryl at gmail.com  
> <silverburgh.meryl at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> i am trying to use python to walk thru each subdirectory from a top
> directory.  Here is my script:
>
> savedPagesDirectory = "/home/meryl/saved_pages/data"
>
> dir=open(savedPagesDirectory, 'r')
>
> for file in dir:
>     if (isdir(file)):
>         # get the full path of the file
>         fileName = savedPagesDirectory + file + 'index.html'
>         print fileName
>
> $ ./scripts/regressionTest.py
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "./scripts/regressionTest.py", line 12, in ?
>     dir=open(savedPagesDirectory, 'r')
> IOError: [Errno 21] Is a directory
>
> But I get the above error:
>
> Can you please tell me what did I do wrong?
>
> Thank you.
>
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