Exclude Directories from os.walk

[D]

Hello,

How can one exclude a directory (and all its subdirectories) when
running os.walk()?

Thanks,

Doug

[Scott David Daniels]

D wrote:

Hello,

How can one exclude a directory (and all its subdirectories) when
running os.walk()?

Thanks,

Doug

for base, dirs, files in os.walk('wherev er'):
if 'RCS' in dirs:
dirs.remove('RC S')

As described in the os.walk docs.
--Scott David Daniels
Sc***********@A cm.Org

[Tim Golden]

D wrote:

Hello,

How can one exclude a directory (and all its subdirectories) when
running os.walk()?

Just remove it from the dirnames yielded:

<code>
import os

for dirpath, dirnames, filenames in os.walk ("c:/temp"):
print dirpath
if "archive" in dirnames:
dirnames.remove ("archive")

</code>

TJG

[D]

Ok, my brain's apparently not working right today.. what I'd like to
do is allow the user to specify a directory to exclude (ex- "C:\temp
\test") - then, when os.walk gets to "C:\temp\te st", it excludes that
directory and all its subdirectories (so, "C:\temp\mytest \test" should
still be recursed). Isn't what's posted above keying just upon the
final subdirectory (i.e. "test") instead of the full path as a whole?

[Orestis Markou]

You then have to also check the base:

for d in dirs[:]:
if os.path.join(ba se, d) == EXCLUDED_DIR
dirs.remove(d)

or

if base == EXCLUDED_DIR
while dirs: dirs.pop()
continue

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On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 6:13 PM, D <dm*******@gmai l.comwrote:

Ok, my brain's apparently not working right today.. what I'd like to
do is allow the user to specify a directory to exclude (ex- "C:\temp
\test") - then, when os.walk gets to "C:\temp\te st", it excludes that
directory and all its subdirectories (so, "C:\temp\mytest \test" should
still be recursed). Isn't what's posted above keying just upon the
final subdirectory (i.e. "test") instead of the full path as a whole?

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[D]

On Oct 21, 1:46*pm, "Orestis Markou" <ores...@oresti s.grwrote:

You then have to also check the base:

for d in dirs[:]:
*if os.path.join(ba se, d) == EXCLUDED_DIR
* *dirs.remove(d)

or

if base == EXCLUDED_DIR
* while dirs: dirs.pop()
continue

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On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 6:13 PM, D <dmcclo...@gmai l.comwrote:

Ok, my brain's apparently not working right today.. what I'd like to
do is allow the user to specify a directory to exclude (ex- "C:\temp
\test") - then, when os.walk gets to "C:\temp\te st", it excludes that
directory and all its subdirectories (so, "C:\temp\mytest \test" should
still be recursed). *Isn't what's posted above keying just upon the
final subdirectory (i.e. "test") instead of the full path as a whole?

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--
ores...@orestis .grhttp://orestis.gr

Works like a charm - thanks to everyone for your help!

Doug

[Scott David Daniels]

D wrote:

Ok, my brain's apparently not working right today.. what I'd like to
do is allow the user to specify a directory to exclude (ex- "C:\temp
\test") - then, when os.walk gets to "C:\temp\te st", it excludes that
directory and all its subdirectories (so, "C:\temp\mytest \test" should
still be recursed). Isn't what's posted above keying just upon the
final subdirectory (i.e. "test") instead of the full path as a whole?

def canonical(path_ name):
return os.path.normpat h(os.path.abspa th(path_name))

forbidden = 'a/b/c'
home, final = os.path.split(c anonical(forbid den))
for base, dirs, files in os.walk('wherev er'):
if final in dirs and home == canonical(base) :
dirs.remove(fin al)
--Scott David Daniels
Sc***********@A cm.Org