[New-bugs-announce] [issue12793] allow filters in os.walk

[Jacek Pliszka]

New submission from Jacek Pliszka <jacek.pliszka at gmail.com>:

I suggest a small change in os.walk module.  

Instead of:
def walk(top, topdown=True, onerror=None, followlinks=False):

I would like to have:
def walk(top, topdown=True, onerror=None, skipnames=lambda x : False, skipdirs=islink):

Implementation might be as follows:

<         if isdir(join(top, name)):
---
>         fullname=join(top, name)
>         if skipnames(fullname):
>             continue
>         if isdir(fullname):

and:

<         if followlinks or not islink(new_path):
<             for x in walk(new_path, topdown, onerror, followlinks):
---
>         if not skipdirs(new_path):
>             for x in walk(new_path, topdown, onerror, skipnames, skipdirs):

This is a small change, breaks a bit 'followlinks' option but gives
much more flexibility as skipnames and skidirs can be any 
functions (including ones using regexp and similar).

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components: Library (Lib)
files: os.diff
keywords: patch
messages: 142523
nosy: Jacek.Pliszka
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: allow filters in os.walk
type: feature request
versions: Python 3.2
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file22960/os.diff

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