""" This is a bit of an experiment with a technique of applying filters to lists of files. The base functions are IterFiles which is a simple wrapper around os.walk and then Filter which is used to create filter functions. Whitelist and Blacklist are then examples of filters created using the Filter function as a decorator As a demonstration of creating filters on the fly, HasMode is then created in the __main__ section """ import os import fnmatch import time __author__ = 'Eysteinn Kristinsson ' def IterFiles(folder, **extraWalkArgs): ''' A simple wrapper around os.walk that returns file paths. **extraWalkArgs are passed to os.walk if you want to change the defaults there. ''' for root, dirs, files in os.walk(folder, **extraWalkArgs): for fileName in files: yield os.path.join(root, fileName) def Filter(func): ''' This is the filter creator function, you can also use it as a decorator. usage: Filter(function, *args **keywordArgs) args and keywordArgs are automatically passed to the function during iteration. The function passed to it must take a valid file path as a first argument example: @Filter def MinSize(file, minsize): return os.path.getsize(file) >= minsize: # Now you have created a filter that can take a list of files and a # minsize argument and apply the minsize condition to the files list # Print files in '.' that are 1MB or larger for file in MinSize(os.listdir('.'), 1024*1024): print file ''' def wrapper(files, *a, **kw): for file in files: if func(file, *a, **kw): yield file return wrapper @Filter def Whitelist(file, patterns): for pat in patterns: if fnmatch.fnmatch(file, pat): return True return False @Filter def Blacklist(file, patterns): for pat in patterns: if fnmatch.fnmatch(file, pat): return False return True if __name__ == '__main__': folder = '.' # folder to process # get an iterator of all files under files = IterFiles(folder) # apply a whitelist to the files iterator wfiles = Whitelist(files, ('*.py', '*.txt')) # apply a blacklist to the whitelisted-files iterator bfiles = Blacklist(wfiles, ('*/__init__.py','*/*test*.py')) print 'whitelist/blacklist test' print bfiles # prints a generator object as we haven't iterated over it yet for file in bfiles: # iterate and print results print ' ', file # Filters can also constructed on the fly # the HasMode function constructed here checks the file mode, it filters # out all files that don't have the mode you pass into it. import stat # for permission constants HasMode = Filter(lambda file, mode: os.stat(file).st_mode & mode == mode) print 'files others have read and write access to' mode = stat.S_IROTH|stat.S_IWOTH for file in HasMode(IterFiles(folder), mode): print ' ', file print # just to state the obvious, you don't have to use IterFilesInFolder to get # a list of files to feed a filter, just something that is iterable but # contains actual valid file paths files = os.listdir('.') print 'python files in current dir' for file in Whitelist(files, ('*.py',)): print ' ', file print