Thomas Allen wrote:
> I must not be understanding something. This is a simple recursive
> function that prints all HTML files in argv[1] as its scans the
> directory's contents. Why do I get a RuntimeError for recursion depth
> exceeded?
>
> #!/usr/bin/env python
>
> import os, sys
>
> def main():
> absToRel(sys.argv[1], sys.argv[2])
>
> def absToRel(dir, root):
> for filename in os.listdir(dir):
filename = os.path.join(dir, filename)
> if os.path.isdir(filename):
> absToRel(filename, root)
> else:
> if(filename.endswith("html") or filename.endswith("htm")):
> print filename
>
> if __name__ == "__main__":
> main()
Without the addition for a directory and a subdirectory of the same
name, "dir/dir", os.listdir("dir") has "dir" (the child) in the result list
which triggers an absToRel() call on "dir" (the parent) ad infinitum.
Peter
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