[issue5832] os.path.walk fails to descend into a directory whose name ends with a space

Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> added the comment: Is "BBDO Atlanta " a symbolic link?. These are skipped by os.path.walk(). (The behaviour of os.walk() can be specified with the followsymlinks argument.) -- nosy: +potten ___ Python tracker

[issue5832] os.path.walk fails to descend into a directory whose name ends with a space

Benjamin Peterson added the comment: os.path.walk is deprecated. You should use os.walk. -- nosy: +benjamin.peterson resolution: -> wont fix status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker __

[issue5832] os.path.walk fails to descend into a directory whose name ends with a space

New submission from Stephen Gilbert : I just ran into this using os.path.walk. I noticed it wouldn't find files inside a particular directory. In debugging, I found that the name of the directory was 'BBDO Atlanta ' os.path.walk would find the directory, but wouldn't enter it. I added a check