Represent directory tree as JSON
I don't think that this task is a "wheel" (so to speak). But it is something which you can easily achieve by means of the tools you mentioned:
import osimport jsondef path_to_dict(path): d = {'name': os.path.basename(path)} if os.path.isdir(path): d['type'] = "directory" d['children'] = [path_to_dict(os.path.join(path,x)) for x in os.listdir\(path)] else: d['type'] = "file" return dprint json.dumps(path_to_dict('.'))
I just had to do this (well, almost) so hit this page but the above doesn't recurse into subdirectories.
So this version only handles directories, not files, but you could add those.
First generate a nested python dict:
def fs_tree(root): results = {} for (dirpath, dirnames, filenames) in os.walk(root): parts = dirpath.split(os.sep) curr = results for p in parts: curr = curr.setdefault(p, {}) return results
Secondly dump that to json using the json
module.