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Kevin
Kevin

Reputation: 855

Python List all Files in Subdirectories but exclude some Directories

I want to list all txt Files in a Directory Structure but exclude some specific folders.

For example I want to get all txt Files under

D:\_Server\<subfolders>\Temp_1\Config\ or

D:\_Server\<subfolders>\Temp_1\Config\Stat but exclude

D:\_Server\<subfolders>\Temp_1\Config\Historie\ and

D:\_Server\<subfolders>\Temp_1\Config\Archive\

To get all Files I used the following code:

glob.glob('D:\\_Server\\**\\Config\\**\\*.olc', recursive=True)

This results in a List of all txt Files also those in the Archive and Historie Folder.

Is this possible with the Python Glob Module? Or is there a better solution to archive this?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 12780

Answers (2)

Shanteshwar Inde
Shanteshwar Inde

Reputation: 1466

you can do this using os also:

import os
extensions = ('.txt')                                    #extinctions want to search
exclude_directories = set(['exclude_directory_name'])    #directory (only names) want to exclude
for dname, dirs, files in os.walk('/root/path/to/directory'):  #this loop though directies recursively 
    dirs[:] = [d for d in dirs if d not in exclude_directories] # exclude directory if in exclude list 
    for fname in files:
        if(fname.lower().endswith(extensions)): #check for extension 
           fpath = os.path.join(dname, fname)   #this generate full directory path for file
           print fpath

Upvotes: 8

drumino
drumino

Reputation: 90

You could just filter your result list, for example with a list comprehension:

allResults = glob.glob('D:\\_Server\\**\\Config\\**\\*.olc', recursive=True)
filteredResults = [r for r in allResults if not "Archive" in r and not "Historie" in r]

Upvotes: 2

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