Looking for a piece of python...

Jerry McBride mcbrides9
Sun May 22 20:07:59 PDT 2005


On Monday 23 May 2005 07:50 pm, Robert Hemus wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-05-22 at 10:56, Jerry McBride wrote:
> > Anyone have a piece of python that processes directories recursively?
> >
> > I've a vast mp3 collection that is broken up into hundreds of directories
> > and... now... I need to do some file processing on them.
> >
> > Anyone?
> >
> > Thank you, in advance.
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> My, that sounds like creepy beastiallity (sp?) to me!!
> Bob
>

Turns out that it was a piece of cake. Using os.path.walk I was able to 
process almost 13,000 mp3's, archived in hundreds of directories, with less 
than 10 lines of code... Amazing. Of course, the processing I'm doing numbers 
closer to 300 lines.

Cheers all and thanks for your help.


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