David J. Weller-Fahy wrote: > Let me know if this should be on the general python list. > > I'm playing with some python to iterate over a directory structure. Part > of the directory structure should be ignored, and will have a period (.) > as the first character of the directory name. > > My solution was to use the following code. > #v+ > for root, dirs, files in os.walk(data_dir()): > for n in xrange(len(dirs) - 1, -1, -1): > if dirs[n].startswith(u'.'): > del dirs[n] > #v- > > This works. But I'm wondering whether there is a simpler solution (rather > than walking the index backwards through the list) to removing items from > a list without replacing the list? Specifically, I'm looking for > something that would be similar to the concept, "Remove every list item > that starts with X." > dirs = [dir for dir in dirs if not dir.startswith(u'.')]
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