Filtering os.walk() dirs and files

This solution uses fnmatch.translate to convert glob patterns to regular expressions (it assumes the includes only is used for files):

import fnmatchimport osimport os.pathimport reincludes = ['*.doc', '*.odt'] # for files onlyexcludes = ['/home/paulo-freitas/Documents'] # for dirs and files# transform glob patterns to regular expressionsincludes = r'|'.join([fnmatch.translate(x) for x in includes])excludes = r'|'.join([fnmatch.translate(x) for x in excludes]) or r'$.'for root, dirs, files in os.walk('/home/paulo-freitas'):    # exclude dirs    dirs[:] = [os.path.join(root, d) for d in dirs]    dirs[:] = [d for d in dirs if not re.match(excludes, d)]    # exclude/include files    files = [os.path.join(root, f) for f in files]    files = [f for f in files if not re.match(excludes, f)]    files = [f for f in files if re.match(includes, f)]    for fname in files:        print fname

From docs.python.org:

os.walk(top[, topdown=True[, onerror=None[, followlinks=False]]])

When topdown is True, the caller can modify the dirnames list in-place … this can be used to prune the search …

for root, dirs, files in os.walk('/home/paulo-freitas', topdown=True):    # excludes can be done with fnmatch.filter and complementary set,    # but it's more annoying to read.    dirs[:] = [d for d in dirs if d not in excludes]     for pat in includes:        for f in fnmatch.filter(files, pat):            print os.path.join(root, f)

I should point out that the above code assumes excludes is a pattern, not a full path. You would need to adjust the list comprehension to filter if os.path.join(root, d) not in excludes to match the OP case.

why fnmatch?

import osexcludes=....for ROOT,DIR,FILES in os.walk("/path"):    for file in FILES:       if file.endswith(('doc','odt')):          print file    for directory in DIR:       if not directory in excludes :          print directory

not exhaustively tested