[BangPypers] parsing directory and subdirecties

[Senthil Kumaran]

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:46:47AM +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
> > 
> > Check if os.walk() is useful. 
> 
> but that is looping - which he does not want.

Then he can wrap python over 'find -type f |wc -l'
- Provided he is on POSIX and wants to just count the files.

os.system('find -type f |wc -l') 

OR

proc1 = subprocess.Popen(['find','-type','f'],stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
proc2 = subprocess.Popen(['wc','-l'],stdin=proc1.stdout,stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
out,err = proc2.communicate()