dirstree 0.0.4
Another library for iterating through the contents of a directory
Requires Python: >=3.8
Keywords: files iteration

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There are many libraries for traversing directories. You can also do this using the standard library. This particular library is a bit different in that:

- ⚗️ Filtering by file extensions, text patterns in [`.gitignore` format](https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Basics-Recording-Changes-to-the-Repository#_ignoring), and using custom callables.
- 🐍 Natively works with both [`Path` objects](https://docs.python.org/3/library/pathlib.html#basic-use) from the standard library and strings.
- ❌ Support for [cancellation tokens](https://github.com/pomponchik/cantok).
- 👯‍♂️ Combining multiple crawling methods in one object.


## Table of contents

- [**Installation**](#installation)
- [**Basic usage**](#basic-usage)
- [**Filtering**](#filtering)
- [**Working with Cancellation Tokens**](#working-with-cancellation-tokens)
- [**Combination**](#combination)


## Installation

You can install [`dirstree`](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/dirstree) using pip:

```bash
pip install dirstree
```

You can also quickly try out this and other packages without having to install using [instld](https://github.com/pomponchik/instld).


## Basic usage

It's very easy to work with the library in your own code:

- Create a crawler object, passing the path to the base directory and, if necessary, additional arguments.
- Iterate through it.

The simplest code example would look like this:

```python
from dirstree import Crawler

crawler = Crawler('.')

for file in crawler:
    print(file)
```

> ↑ Here we output recursively (that is, including the contents of nested directories) all files from the current directory. At each iteration, we get a new [`Path` object](https://docs.python.org/3/library/pathlib.html#basic-use).


## Filtering

Iterating through the files in the directory, you may not want to view all files, but only files of a certain type. To do this, ignore all other files. How to do it? There are 3 ways:

- Bypass only files with the specified [extensions](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filename_extension), such as `.txt`, `.doc`, or `.py`.
- Bypass files whose paths follow a specific text pattern.
- Use an arbitrary function to determine whether you need each specific path or not.


To select a specific method, you need to pass a specific parameter when creating the crawler object. Of course, all the methods can be combined with each other.

To set the file extensions you are interested in, use the `extensions` parameter:

```python
crawler = Crawler('.', extensions=['.txt'])  # Iterate only on .txt files.
```

Also, if you only need Python files, you can use a special class to bypass them only, without specifying extensions:

```python
from dirstree import PythonCrawler

crawler = PythonCrawler('.')  # Iterate only on .py files.
```

To specify which files and directories you do NOT want to iterate over, use the `exclude` parameter:

```python
crawler = Crawler('.', exclude=['.git', 'venv'])  # Exclude ".git" and "venv" directories.
```

> ↑ Please note that we use the [`.gitignore` format](https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Basics-Recording-Changes-to-the-Repository#_ignoring) here.

If you need a universal way to filter out unnecessary paths, pass your function as the `filter` parameter:

```python
crawler = Crawler('.', filter = lambda path: len(str(path)) == 7)  # Iterate only on paths that are 7 characters long.
```


## Working with Cancellation Tokens

You can set an arbitrary condition under which file traversal will stop using [cancellation tokens](https://cantok.readthedocs.io/en/latest/the_pattern/) from the [`cantok`](https://github.com/pomponchik/cantok) library.

> There are 2 ways to do this ↓

1. If you use the crawler as a one-time object for a single iteration, set the token when creating it:

  ```python
for path in Crawler('.', token=TimeoutToken(0.0001)): # Limit the iteration time to 0.0001 seconds.
    print(path)
```

2. If you plan to use the crawler object several times, use the `go()` method for iteration and pass a new token to it everytime:

  ```python
crawler = Crawler('.')

for path in crawler.go(token=TimeoutToken(0.0001)): # Limit the iteration time to 0.0001 seconds.
    print(path)
```

> ↑ Follow these rules to avoid accidentally "baking" an expired token inside a crawler object.


## Combination

You can combine multiple crawler objects into one using the usual addition operator, like this:

```python
for path in Crawler('../dirstree') + Crawler('../cantok'):
    print(path)
```

> ↑ The paths that you will iterate on will be automatically deduplicated.

> ↑ You can also impose arbitrary restrictions on each of the summed objects, all of them will be taken into account.

You can also pass multiple paths to a single crawler object:

```python
for path in Crawler('../dirstree', '../cantok'):
    print(path)
```

> ↑ In this case, there is no deduplication of paths.