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Diffstat (limited to 'Lib/os.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/os.py | 10 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ def renames(old, new): __all__.extend(["makedirs", "removedirs", "renames"]) -def walk(top, topdown=True, onerror=None): +def walk(top, topdown=True, onerror=None, followlinks=False): """Directory tree generator. For each directory in the directory tree rooted at top (including top @@ -257,6 +257,10 @@ def walk(top, topdown=True, onerror=None): to abort the walk. Note that the filename is available as the filename attribute of the exception object. + By default, os.walk does not follow symbolic links to subdirectories on + systems that support them. In order to get this functionality, set the + optional argument 'followlinks' to true. + Caution: if you pass a relative pathname for top, don't change the current working directory between resumptions of walk. walk never changes the current directory, and assumes that the client doesn't @@ -300,8 +304,8 @@ def walk(top, topdown=True, onerror=None): yield top, dirs, nondirs for name in dirs: path = join(top, name) - if not islink(path): - for x in walk(path, topdown, onerror): + if followlinks or not islink(path): + for x in walk(path, topdown, onerror, followlinks): yield x if not topdown: yield top, dirs, nondirs |