Tag archive for: os.walk

Coding
27 March 2016

How to look for classes defined in Python 3 files dynamically

There are times when we need to write Python codes that extends the functionality of others, especially when we are writing a framework that allows for custom extension. To allow my Python program to be extended by others via the template design pattern, the first exploration task that I did was to find out how to dynamically look for classes defined in arbitrary Python files.

This post documents a way to look for classes defined in Python 3 files dynamically.

class reflection, os.walk, Python

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Coding
20 March 2016

How to traverse all folders and files within a folder dynamically in Python 3

I had this requirement where I need to be able to look into a folder and pick up any configuration files for my Python 3 application. In order to achieve that, I first set an exploratory task to get the Python 3 code for traversing all folders and files within a folder.

For this exploratory task, I had created a script that will traverse the folders and files that are contained within a folder and print out their full paths.

File IO, os.walk, Python, Python 3

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