how to get an exact directory through os.walk in python

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I have a directory that contains directories like /sample1, /sample10, /sample11 etc. when I am using os.walk to access all of them one by one, I am facing some difficulties.

for root, dirs, files in os.walk(mypath):
    if 'sample1' in root:
       print root

now, this returns all root /sample1, /sample10, /sample11 etc. as 'sample1' is there for all directories. how can I obtain only sample1 directory ?

may be regex would be good but I dont know how to use it.

If you are at the very beginning with python, you should always study some elementary language features here: http://docs.python.org/library/index.html — heltonbiker, Oct 19 '11 at 18:00

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 19 '11 at 17:51

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Test for equality: if root == "sample1": …

answered Oct 19 '11 at 17:51

David Wolever

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or `if root == '/sample1':` since he seems to have the directory prefix in his strings – totowtwo Oct 19 '11 at 18:04

how to get an exact directory through os.walk in python

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