On 05/11/2010 02:49 PM, kj wrote:
I want implement a function that walks through a directory tree and performs an analsysis of all the subdirectories found. The task has two essential requirements that, AFAICT, make it impossible to use os.walk for this:1. I need to be able to prune certain directories from being visited. 2. The analysis on each directory can be performed only after it has been performed on all its subdirectories. Unless I'm missing something, to do (1), os.walk must be run with topdown=True, whereas to do (2) it must be run with topdown=False.
I don't think there's a way to coerce os.walk into doing what you want. That said, the core source for os.walk() is a whole 23 lines of code, it's easy enough to just clone it and add what you need...
PS: I never understood why os.walk does not support hooks for key events during such a tree traversal.
including hooks for calling pre/post hooks. -tkc -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
