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So I'm learning Python here and there and thought I'd reimplement my directory recurser with it. Again, I'm only learning, so there may be a better way to do this in Python. Of course I could use os.walk(), but that would defeat the purpose of creating my own recurser. Why am I doing this simple task? Just cuz. :)

#!/usr/bin/env python

import os, sys

def printDir( path ):
     "Print a directory and it's files recursively"
     
     print 'Directory: ' + path
     
     for item in os.listdir( path ):
          newPath = path + '/' + item
          if os.path.isdir( newPath ):
               printDir( newPath )
          elif os.path.isfile( newPath ):
               print item
          
if len(sys.argv) > 1:
     printDir( sys.argv[1] )
else:
     printDir( '.' )

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