[melbourne-pug] os.walk into a skip

[Mike Dewhirst]

On 3/03/2010 4:18pm, Tobias Sargeant wrote:
>
> On 03/03/2010, at 4:09 PM, Mike Dewhirst wrote:
>
>> Hi all
>>
>> Can someone tell me how to skip some arbitrary directories in os.walk()?
>
>
> from the os.walk() docstring:
>
> When topdown is true, the caller can modify the dirnames list in-place
> (e.g., via del or slice assignment), and walk will only recurse into the
> subdirectories whose names remain in dirnames; this can be used to prune
> the search, or to impose a specific order of visiting. Modifying
> dirnames when topdown is false is ineffective, since the directories in
> dirnames have already been generated by the time dirnames itself is
> generated.

Duh ...

Thanks. I had (must have!) seen that but I was solving a different 
problem at the time so it didn't take.

Cheers

Mike



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