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Ways to Move up and Down the dir structure in Python

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  1. #Moving up/down dir structure
  2. print os.listdir('.') # current level
  3. print os.listdir('..') # one level up
  4. print os.listdir('../..') # two levels up
  5.  
  6.  
  7.  
  8. # more complex example:
  9. # This will walk the file system beginning in the directory the script is run from. It 
  10. # deletes the empty directories at each level
  11.  
  12. for root, dirs, files in os.walk(os.getcwd()):
  13.     for name in dirs:
  14.         try:
  15.             os.rmdir(os.path.join(root, name))
  16.         except WindowsError:
  17.             print 'Skipping', os.path.join(root, name)

URL: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3806562/ways-to-move-up-and-down-the-dir-structure-in-python

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