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title: "Quick Python: List Files Recursively"
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date: 2020-02-09T17:31:44-05:00
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draft: false
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tags: [ "Python" ]
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---
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In order to add website files into a Flask application using setuptools, I needed to recurse down several directories and grab HTML and CSS files.
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This Python tip will show you how to get a list of files recursively.
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First in order to solve this problem, we're going to recursively get a list of directories.
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```python
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from glob import glob
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directories = glob('/path/to/directory/**/', recursive=True)
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```
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Now we will go in each directory and grab the files,
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```python
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data_files = []
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for directory in directories:
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data_files += list(filter(lambda x: x + '/' not in directories, glob(directory + '*')))
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```
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For setuptools, you would want the `data_files` variable to be a list of tuples with module names and the files associated with them.
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Complete script:
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```python
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data_files = []
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directories = glob('path/to/files/**/', recursive=True)
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for directory in directories:
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files = list(filter(lambda x: x + '/' not in directories, glob(directory + "*")))
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data_files.append((directory, files))
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```
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For setuptools don't forget to `include_package_data`!
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