What is the Python way to walk a directory tree?

Question

I feel that assigning files, and folders and doing the += [item] part is a bit hackish. Any suggestions? I\'m using Python 3.2

from os import *
from os.pat         


        

Answer 1

I've not tested this extensively yet, but I believe this will expand the os.walk generator, join dirnames to all the file paths, and flatten the resulting list; To give a straight up list of concrete files in your search path.

import itertools
import os

def find(input_path):
    return itertools.chain(
        *list(
            list(os.path.join(dirname, fname) for fname in files)
            for dirname, _, files in os.walk(input_path)
        )
    )