dirwalk.py generator version of os.path.walk

Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Sun Mar 3 18:41:05 EST 2002


Tim Peters wrote:
> 
> If I were Jim, I'd continue leaving recursion out of this specific
> application.  An explicit "todo list" trivially supports either
> breadth-first or depth-first traversal (a choice Jim explicitly mentioned as
> something he wants to control).

That's fine. I was just trying to make sure that Jim
didn't reject recursion for the wrong reasons. His
comment about lack of tail-recursion supported
suggested a possibly hazy understanding of the
issues, so I tried to indulge in a little fog-dispersal.

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