ignore-files

I need a file system walker that I could instruct to ignore traversing directories that I want to leave untouched, including all subdirectories below that branch. The os.walk and os.path.walk just don't do it. Actually, os.walk may do exactly what you want. Say I have a list (perhaps a set) of directories to ignore in ignore . Then this should work: def my_walk(top_dir, ignore): for dirpath, dirnames, filenames in os.walk(top_dir): dirnames[:] = [ dn for dn in dirnames if os.path.join(dirpath, dn) not in ignore ] yield dirpath, dirnames, filenames It is possible to modify the second element of

Caveat: I try all the posibilities listed here: How can I ignore everything under a folder in Mercurial . None works as I hope. I want to ignore every thing under the folder test . But not ignore srcProject\test\TestManager I try syntax: glob test/** And it ignores test and srcProject\test\TestManager With: syntax: regexp ^/test/ It's the same thing. Also with: syntax: regexp test\\* I have install TortoiseHG 0.4rc2 with Mercurial-626cb86a6523+tortoisehg, Python-2.5.1, PyGTK-2.10.6, GTK-2.10.11 in Windows Try it without the slash after the caret in the regexp version. ^test/ Here's a test: ~$