filesystem_autocomplete

utility for recursively mapping files and subdirectories

To use, import walk_directory then supply a starting directory:

>>> from filesystem_autocomplete import walk_directory
>>> dir_info = walk_directory(".")

The resulting object will contain attributes for all files and subdirectories.

From a python shell or jupyter notebook, you can explore the file system using autocomplete. When evaluating, files will print their full path:

>>> dir_info.filesystem_autocomplete.filesystem_autocomplete_py
/home/chavlin/src/dxl/filesystem_autocomplete/filesystem_autocomplete/filesystem_autocomplete.py

directories will print their contents:

>>> dir_info.filesystem_autocomplete
Directory: /home/chavlin/src/dxl/filesystem_autocomplete/filesystem_autocomplete

Files:
__init__.py
filesystem_autocomplete.py

Subdirectories:
__pycache__
tests

To extract the full path for files:

>>> dir_info.filesystem_autocomplete.filesystem_autocomplete_py.filepath
'/home/chavlin/src/dxl/filesystem_autocomplete/filesystem_autocomplete/filesystem_autocomplete.py'

and for directories:

>>> dir_info.filesystem_autocomplete.dirpath
'/home/chavlin/src/dxl/filesystem_autocomplete/filesystem_autocomplete'

handling special characters

Since files and directories are stored as attributes, any invalid characters are replaced with underscores in the object. The full path string contains the original file.