On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Zachary Ware <zachary.ware+pyl...@gmail.com> wrote: > You can always cheat: > > $ python -c 'exec("import os\nfor root, dirs, files in os.walk(\".\"):\n if > len(dirs + files) == 1: print(root)")' > > Doesn't do much for being long and fiddly, though.
Not really, no! Heh. I wrote that in competition against a theoretical solution involving shell commands and pipes and so on, with the intention being that the Python version could be a simple shell one-liner, just as the pipe version could. (The task: Find all directories with exactly one subdirectory or file in them, not counting dot and dot-dot. Python's os.walk() is pretty much perfect for that.) I tried fiddling with __import__() rather than the import statement, but it didn't really aid clarity much. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list