Why not use Matthew's suggestion of os.removedirs() - sounds like its all that you need. Its not as much fun, but I think that single call will do what your entire script is intending to do.
- Rick -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Adam Getchell Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2002 10:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Shell tool Sorry about the HTML mail -- here it is plain text. If I understand the suggestions, to do this properly I should probably be doing a Depth-First Search. Well, interestingly I need to do just this for another tool which constructs a dependency tree based upon file dependencies for a particular code. I think the webchecker tool does something similar. Before I try to write my own, I'd like to enquire about Python's "batteries" -- is there a good built-in data structure to construct an adjacency list of nodes that could be files or data sources? Here's the other tool. It sounds like I might get away with adding to the bottom of lister: if os.path.isdir(path).isempty(): purge(path) Except I'd have to loop through again ...? Thanks for all the help! """Delete files older than AGING constant using os.path.walk""" import sys, os, time AGING = 172800 # Default 2 days def lister(dummy, dirName, filesInDir): print '[' + dirName + ']' for fname in filesInDir: path = os.path.join(dirName, fname) if not os.path.isdir(path): print path, time.ctime(os.stat(path).st_mtime), fileage(path), prune(path) purge(path) def fileage(file): curtime = time.time() modtime = os.stat(file).st_mtime age = curtime - modtime return age def prune(file): if fileage(file) > AGING: return ("T") else: return ("File should not be deleted") def purge(file): if prune(file) == "T": os.remove(file) if __name__ == '__main__': os.path.walk(sys.argv[1], lister, None) --Adam Getchell _______________________________________________ ActivePython mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs Other options: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/listinfo/ActivePython _______________________________________________ ActivePython mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs Other options: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/listinfo/ActivePython
