On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 9:44 PM Steve Barnes <gadgetst...@live.co.uk> wrote:
> Since the implementation of os.walk has changed to use os.scandir which
> exposes the returned file statuses in the os.DirEntry.stat() the
> overhead should be minimal.
>
> An alternative would be to add another new function, say os.vwalk(), to
> only walk visible entries.
>
On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 12:06 AM Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> I would write something like:
> for root, dirs, files in filter(ignorable, os.walk(some_dir)):
I agree with Steven with regards to `filter` needing to be flexible. If you
want to avoid duplicate `stat` calls, you'll probably write:
import os
import stat
def is_hidden(st):
return bool(st.st_file_attributes & stat.FILE_ATTRIBUTE_HIDDEN)
def visible_walk(path):
for entry in os.scandir(path):
if entry.is_dir():
if not is_hidden(entry.stat()):
yield from visible_walk(entry.path)
else:
if not is_hidden(entry.stat()):
yield entry.path
Then you can decide whether you want to ignore hidden files or just hidden
directories. The variations for such a need are many. So it makes sense to
leave any specific filtering need outside of the standard library. A PyPI
package with a few standard filtered walks could be a nice exploration for
this idea.
Cheers,
Yuval
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