os.walk without digging into directories below

Question

How do I limit os.walk to only return files in the directory I provide it?

def _dir_list(self, dir_name, whitelist):
    outputList = []
    for         


        

Answer 1

I think the solution is actually very simple.

use

break

to only do first iteration of the for loop, there must be a more elegant way.

for root, dirs, files in os.walk(dir_name):
    for f in files:
        ...
        ...
    break
...

The first time you call os.walk, it returns tulips for the current directory, then on next loop the contents of the next directory.

Take original script and just add a break.

def _dir_list(self, dir_name, whitelist):
    outputList = []
    for root, dirs, files in os.walk(dir_name):
        for f in files:
            if os.path.splitext(f)[1] in whitelist:
                outputList.append(os.path.join(root, f))
            else:
                self._email_to_("ignore")
        break
    return outputList