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Last Update: 17.01.2010. By kerim in python | snipplet
I know it sounds trivial but as usual the trivial things are those that are most annoying. Running through the harddrive of my notebook i came accross way to much garbage manifesting itself through empty directories.
After some 30 minutes of “search and despair” i simply decided to stop clicking.
Here is a result of that after 5 minutes. Never underestimate the batteries:
import os
from os.path import join, getsize
for root, dirs, files in os.walk('c:\\'):
if len(dirs)==0 and len(files)==0:
print root
The results gave me the creeps. You only get the empty directories at the lowest level. So here is a better version:
import os
from os.path import join, isfile
def walksub(dir):
isEmpty=True
subDirs=[]
for entry in os.listdir(dir):
try:
if isfile(join(dir,entry))==True:
isEmpty = False
else:
subEmpty = walksub(join(dir, entry))
if subEmpty==True:
subDirs.append(join(dir, entry))
else:
isEmpty=False
except :
print ("error checking: "+entry)
isEmpty=False
if isEmpty == False:
for subDir in subDirs:
print subDir
return isEmpty
walksub('c:\\')
Now here is the 1 million dollar question: “What are all those empty directories good for?”