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Tristen Hicks
Tristen Hicks

Reputation: 11

Generating filenames containing intermediate directories with os.walk()

It's my first time working in Python, and I'm having a bit of trouble finding the intermediate directory path in the following segment of code:

Currently, when passing a directory argument to 'stroll', the function seems to enter thePath, observing each subdirectory type, and descending if of type directory. The code isn't mine, and it seems that the nested for loop is iterating over a list of regular files, so the loop wouldn't know anything about the directory to which each element belongs.

Current output is

../Sample_Cases_Asg2/output.txt
../Sample_Cases_Asg2/file2
../Sample_Cases_Asg2/file1
../Sample_Cases_Asg2/output.txt
../Sample_Cases_Asg2/file2
../Sample_Cases_Asg2/file1
../Sample_Cases_Asg2/output.txt
../Sample_Cases_Asg2/file2
../Sample_Cases_Asg2/file1
../Sample_Cases_Asg2/output.txt
../Sample_Cases_Asg2/file2
../Sample_Cases_Asg2/file1

Desired output is

../Sample_Cases_Asg2/sample1/output.txt
../Sample_Cases_Asg2/sample1/file2
../Sample_Cases_Asg2/sample1/file1
../Sample_Cases_Asg2/sample2/output.txt
../Sample_Cases_Asg2/sample2/file2
../Sample_Cases_Asg2/sample2/file1
../Sample_Cases_Asg2/sample3output.txt
../Sample_Cases_Asg2/sample3/file2
../Sample_Cases_Asg2/sample3/file1
../Sample_Cases_Asg2/sample3/output.txt
../Sample_Cases_Asg2/sample3/file2
../Sample_Cases_Asg2/sample3/file1

The implementation is

   def stroll(thePath):
    deeper = []
    for root, dirs, files in os.walk(thePath):
            for file in files:
                    print (os.path.join(thePath, file))

Additionally, I'm new to the community so any concise input on how to improve my question asking would be greatly appreciated.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 34

Answers (1)

Alex Hall
Alex Hall

Reputation: 36013

If you put help(os.walk) in a shell, you will see:

For each directory in the directory tree rooted at top (including top itself, but excluding '.' and '..'), yields a 3-tuple

dirpath, dirnames, filenames

dirpath is a string, the path to the directory. dirnames is a list of the names of the subdirectories in dirpath (excluding '.' and '..'). filenames is a list of the names of the non-directory files in dirpath. Note that the names in the lists are just names, with no path components.

So you need:

os.path.join(root, file)

It's pretty annoying.

Upvotes: 1

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