patrick vrijlandt <patrick.vrijla...@gmail.com> added the comment: The documentation of this function is generally ambiguous, because os.walk is a generator. Thus "generate" means (1) yielded from a generator and (2) prepared for later use within the generator. To avoid the ambiguity, "generate" should be avoided if possible. (1) might be replaced by "return" and (2) by "prepare".
@zbysz The paragraph you cite is about "Modifying dirnames ". If you are not "Modifying dirnames" (like me) this section easily skips your attention. My problem was, of course, that I had myself changed the directory structure - It's not a race condition with another process but an effect of the loop os.walk was managing. @pitrou shutil.rmtree cannot help me, because I'm only deleting empty dirs. Proposal (very verbose I'm afraid): If you change the directory structure below dirpath while topdown=True, you can modify dirnames in-place so that walk will visit the right directories. If you change the directory structure below dirpath while topdown=False (maybe while you where there), dirnames and filenames can still reflect the old situation and it might be necessary to call os.listdir again. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue13779> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
