[Tutor] getting around ValueError in os.walk

[Jason Massey]

Andrew,

I put in your code, exactly as you have it, with only three changes:

#!/usr/bin/python
import os

for (dirpath, subdirs, filenames) in os.walk("/python24"):    # a comma
instead of a period after dirpath
       for file in filenames:
               if file.endswith(".py"):
# py instead of baz, just for my machine
                       print os.path.join(dirpath,file)                   #
file instead of f

This walks the directories and prints out the path and filename.

On a side note I've never had a problem throwing several thousand files or
lines at python.

On 1/30/06, Andrew D. Fant <fant at pobox.com> wrote:
>
> I'm working on a program to do some processing on a directory tree. If I
> had
> been doing it in a shell script, the core of the processing would have
> been in
> a "find $ROOT -type f -name FOO -print" command"
>
> On the web, I found a snippet of code that demonstrated the os.walk module
> and
> I created a simple test program to work on my tree that looked like this:
>
> #!/usr/bin/python
> import os
>
> for (dirpath. subdirs, filenames) in os.walk("/foo/bar"):
>         for file in filenames:
>                 if file.endswith(".baz"):
>                         print os.path.join(dirpath,f)
>
>
> when I try to run it, I get a "ValueError: too many values to unpack"
> which I
> think  comes from the fact that there is a subdirectory of /foo/bar which
> has
> over 2500 files in it.  The tree can't be easily restructured for legacy
> reasons.  Can anyone suggest the best way to get around this in code?
>
> Thanks,
>         Andy
>
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