Files which starts with a dot are not hidden on Windows-Systems.
The meaning of the dot comes from the unix world.
MS uses instead attributes, which are not easy accessible.
If a file is hidden or not, should not be any problem für Python.
This is not a valid path
Path('D:\Backupdata\*\*').
You can't use a wildcard in a Path, but
glob and
rglob can do this.
If you have the file .daily.log in different paths, you could use
rgblob without a wildcard.
from pathlib import Path
for filename in Path('D:\Backupdata').rglob('.daily.log'):
print(filename)This code will find also a .daily.log in D:\Backupdata\
To prevent this, you can calculate how deep a file is in the root path.
A more flexible function:
from pathlib import Path
def my_constraint(file, depth):
"""
Returns True, if depth == 2
On the same level, is level 1
One directory deeper, is level 2
...
"""
return depth == 2
def recursive_search(root, pattern, constraint=None):
root = Path(root)
for file in root.rglob(pattern):
if constraint:
depth = len(file.parts) - len(root.parts)
if constraint(file, depth):
yield file
else:
yield file
# no constraint
generator = recursive_search(r"D:\Backupdata", ".daily.txt")
for file in generator:
print(file)
# with constraint
generator = recursive_search(r"D:\Backupdata", ".daily.txt", my_constraint)
for file in generator:
print(file)
