[Python-Dev] os.path.walk() lacks 'depth first' option (original) (raw)

Walter D�rwald walter@livinglogic.de
Tue, 22 Apr 2003 17:57:12 +0200

Guido van Rossum wrote:

Guido van Rossum wrote:

But if I had to do it over again, I wouldn't have added walk() in the current form. I think it's the perfect place for a generator.

Has anybody considered Jason Orendorff's path module (http://www.jorendorff.com/articles/python/path/) for inclusion in the standard library? It has a path walking generator and much, much more.

Absolutely! So let's try to write something new based on generators, make it flexible enough so that it can handle pre-order or post-order visits, and then phase out os.walk().

This new generator should probably support callbacks that determine whether directories should be entered or not.

Bye, Walter D�rwald