Hi Danny,
Thanks for the advice.
> It might be interesting to write a function that takes an arbitrary
> directory, and returns 'True' if that directory is a bottom-level
> directory. Can you write this function?
I've got this:
-------
def isBottomDir(path):
for item in os.listdir(path):
if os.path.isdir(os.path.join(path,item)):
return False
return True
-------
Is that an acceptable way of doing this? I've been reading
http://thedailywtf.com for a month or so now - and though I've yet to
see a Python example cross their pages, I'm rather terrified of
becoming the first :)
To iterate through the directories, the following works for me:
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for root, dirs, files in os.walk('~\Test'):
if test_dir.isBottomDir(root) == True: print root
-------
Is it worthwhile trying to write my own recursive function for this?
Or can I safely leave this task to to os.walk without inviting
ridicule from the programming community.
> There's a module that does this called 'optparse':
>
> http://www.python.org/doc/lib/module-optparse.html
>
> Try reusing that first, because it's been fairly well exercised and tuned
> to what people expect from an option parser.
Excellent. That looks like what I was looking for.
Thanks!
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