This module is sort of like os.walk on steroids. It was created to allow the safe use of command-line path arguments in your Python scripts. For instance, say the user passes in several files and directories as arguments and you want to return a sorted list of files within said directories meeting specific access, extension, and/or size criteria. Or perhaps the user passes in a list of files and you want to verify that all of the files meet the necessary criteria before using them.

pip3 install --user batchpath

The batchpath module is known to be compatible with Python 3.

NOTE: This module uses os.walk(), but will use scandir's significantly faster implementation if it is available. Consider installing the scandir module.

from batchpath import GeneratePaths()

gp = GeneratePaths()
paths = ['/path/to/directory']
files = gp.files(paths, access=os.R_OK, extensions=['conf','txt'], minsize=0, recursion=True)

from batchpath import VerifyPaths()

vp = VerifyPaths()
paths = ['/path/to/file', '/path/to/dir', '/path/to/other']
verification_status = vp.all(paths, access=os.R_OK)
invalid_paths = vp.failures

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