os.path.walk() question.

[Robert Roy]

On 25 Apr 2000 22:19:44 GMT, "Andrew McDowell"
<drew.mcdowell at msfc.nasa.gov> wrote:

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>I didn't see this question mentioned in any older posts so forgive me if I'm
>dragging up and old topic...but:
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>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?
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>I suppose I could customize the code, but my first notion was that someone
>on the group had probably addressed this before.
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>Any advice would be much appreciated :)
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>-Drew
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