os.path.walk() question.

[Moshe Zadka]

On 25 Apr 2000, Andrew McDowell wrote:

> I need to find out if a file exists under a directory hierarchy.
> The hierarchy could be quite large so I don't want to continue recursing
> through the hierarchy if the file is found one or two directories down.   Is
> there a way that you can tell os.path.walk() to stop searching?

Here's a quick-n-dirty hack: throw an exception, containing the name
of the file you found.

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