How do i limit os.walk to only return files in the directory i provide it? def _dir_list(self, dir_name, whitelist): outputList = [] for root, dirs, files in os.walk(dir_name): for f in files: if os.path.splitext(f)[1] in whitelist: outputList.append(os.path.join(root, f)) else: ...
Hey all, this is my first time recently trying to get into the file and os part of Python. I am trying to search a directory then find all sub directories. If the directory has no folders, add all the files to a list. And organize them all by dict. So for instance a tree could look like this Starting Path Dir 1 Subdir 1 Subdir 2 Sub...
Hello, So I am trying to use os.walk() to generate an XML representation of a directory structure. I seem to be getting a ton of duplicates. It properly places directories within each other and files in the right place for the first portion of the xml file; however, after it does it correctly it then continues traversing incorrectly. I a...
I have a piece of code which I'm using to search for the executables of game files and returning the directories. I would really like to get some sort of progress indicator as to how far along os.walk is. How would I accomplish such a thing? I tried doing startpt = root.count(os.sep) and gauging off of that but that just gives how dee...
Hello, I needed to find the number of files in a folder on the system. This is what i used: file_count = sum((len(f) for _, _, f in os.walk('path'))) This works fine when we specify the path as a string in quotes, but when I enter a variable name that holds the path, type(file_count) is a generator object, and hence cannot be used a...
I'm trying to get simple code working, unfortunately I'm a python beginner. My script should return a list of files that doesn't match a pattern, more information here : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2910106/python-grep-reverse-matching/2910288#2910288 My code is running but doesn't process the complete list of files found as it s...
I want to quickly bzip2 compress several hundred gigabytes of data using my 8 core , 16 GB ram workstation. Currently I am using a simple python script to compress a whole directory tree using bzip2 and an os.system call coupled to an os.walk call. I see that the bzip2 only uses a single cpu while the other cpus remain relatively idle. ...
Hello all. I have a script to report me about all files, in a directory, so that users will be required to erase them (it's a really badly managed cluster, w/o real superuser). When I run the script I get: OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: ' ls: : Permission denied I can't write the dir name (company policy) The code is: #!/depot/P...