"Maximum recursion depth exceeded"...why?
Christian Heimes
lists at cheimes.de
Tue Feb 17 17:08:01 EST 2009
Thomas Allen schrieb:
> I must not be understanding something. This is a simple recursive
> function that prints all HTML files in argv[1] as its scans the
> directory's contents. Why do I get a RuntimeError for recursion depth
> exceeded?
>
> #!/usr/bin/env python
>
> import os, sys
>
> def main():
> absToRel(sys.argv[1], sys.argv[2])
>
> def absToRel(dir, root):
> for filename in os.listdir(dir):
> if os.path.isdir(filename):
> absToRel(filename, root)
> else:
> if(filename.endswith("html") or filename.endswith("htm")):
> print filename
Why so complicated?
for root, dirs, files in os.walk(directory):
for filename in files:
if filename.endswith((".htm"), (".html")):
print os.path.join(root, filename)
Christian
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