On Mon, May 7, 2018, at 02:05, Steve Barnes wrote: > In a lot of uses of os.walk it is desirable to skip version control > directories, (which are usually hidden directories), to the point that > almost all of the examples given look like:
CVS isn't a hidden directory on Linux. Maybe it can be on windows, but it probably won't be if it's manually created, which you mentioned issues with below. There's probably a discussion we should be having about exposing these system-specific attributes, but they really can't be a general solution for the problem you have. MacOS, incidentally, has two distinct attributes for hiding files [chflags hidden and setfile -a V], along with a ".private" file that can be in a directory containing a list of filenames to hide. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
