[Python-ideas] pathlib.Path.walk

INADA Naoki songofacandy at gmail.com
Mon Apr 3 04:38:37 EDT 2017


Why not Path.glob?
https://docs.python.org/3.6/library/pathlib.html#pathlib.Path.glob

On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 5:33 PM, Michel Desmoulin
<desmoulinmichel at gmail.com> wrote:
> Like os.walk, but from a Path instance.
>
> We have Path.iterdir, but it's not recursive. Which you use either
> os.scandir, or os.walk. In any case, you end up doing:
>
> import os
> import pathlib
>
> directory = pathlib.Path(get_dir())
>
> # do things with directory
>
> for root, dirs, files os.walk(directory):
>     root = Path(root)
>     for f in files:
>         f = root / f
>             # do something with file
>
> Which is not that bad, but you waste a lot of time discovering how to do
> that since you look first for something like Path.walk.
>
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