Bugs item #1682940, was opened at 2007-03-18 02:42 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by gbrandl You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1682940&group_id=5470
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: Python Library Group: None >Status: Closed >Resolution: Out of Date Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: Tasci Synx (synx13) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: os.walk should traverse outward symlinks Initial Comment: To my dismay, I discovered that os.walk will ignore all symlinks, even symlinks that link to somewhere outside of the directory being walked. So I made a little patch to os.py, I hope you apply it, or some figment thereof. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Georg Brandl (gbrandl) Date: 2007-03-18 08:19 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=849994 Originator: NO The detection of "outward" symlinks is unreliable because there may be a link there which links "back" into the walked hierarchy. For 2.6, os.walk already has a "followlinks" keyword argument, which will follow *all* symlinks. You can easily restrict them by removing them from the "dirs" list yielded to the caller. Closing as outdated. IMO, the one thing that could be improved is to have a cache of visited directories, and to not visit one if it's in the cache. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1682940&group_id=5470 _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
