[Patches] find file permissions error

[Guido van Rossum]

> > Find file has permissions error in Python 1.5.2.  I add error correction
> > so it does not crash because of permission denied.
> 
> First thing first: the function does not crash (else it would be a bug in
> the interpreter), but raises OSError. It could be troublesome or some
> users, but it could be necessary for others. If anything, the fix should
> be to receive an optional function object to call on errors, and if it is
> not given, continue to raise OSError.

In Python 1.6, find.py will be declared obsolete, and live in
Lib/lib-old (which means that it's not on the default module search
path).

Thus, changing the API seems bogus.

The reason for making it obsolete is that it really was a mistake to
add it in the first place; it looks like it was a utility used for the
Mac development at the time.

In 1.6, you can whip up the same thing using os.path.walk():

import os, fnmatch
def find(pat, dir=os.curdir):
    list = []
    def visit((list, pat), dir, names):
        for name in names:
            if fnmatch.fnmatch(name, pat):
                fullname = os.path.join(dir, name)
                list.append(fullname)
    os.path.walk(dir, visit, (list, pat))
    return list

By the way, has anybody else noticed some redundant logic in
posixpath.walk()?  It contains code to skip "." and "..", but
os.listdir() stopped returning those many years ago...

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