On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Peng Yu <pengyu...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't see a way to avoid walking over directories of certain names > with os.walk. For example, I don't want os.walk return files whose > path include '/backup/'. Is there a way to do so? Otherwise, maybe I > will have to make my own program. Thank you!
Read the docs! (http://docs.python.org/library/os.html#os.walk): """ os.walk(top[, topdown=True[, onerror=None[, followlinks=False]]]) Generate the file names in a directory tree by walking the tree either top-down or bottom-up. For each directory in the tree rooted at directory top (including top itself), it yields a 3-tuple (dirpath, dirnames, filenames). [...] When topdown is True, the caller can modify the dirnames list in-place (perhaps using del or slice assignment), and walk() will only recurse into the subdirectories whose names remain in dirnames; this can be used to prune the search, impose a specific order of visiting, or even to inform walk() about directories the caller creates or renames before it resumes walk() again. """ They even include a specific code example of how to skip unwanted subdirectories. Cheers, Chris -- http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
