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    <p>So, I'm trying to make myself a Python script which goes through the selected Music folder and tells the user if specific album doesn't have an album cover. It basically goes through all the files and checks <code>if file[-4:] in (".jpg",".bmp",".png")</code>, if true, it found a picture file. Just to make it clear, the structure of my folders is:</p> <ul> <li>Music folder <ul> <li>Arctic Monkeys <ul> <li>Humbug (2009)</li> <li>Suck it and see (2011)</li> </ul></li> <li>Morphine <ul> <li>Cure For Pain (1993)</li> </ul></li> </ul></li> </ul> <p>.. and so on. I'm testing the script to find if there's a missing cover in my Arctic Monkeys directory, and my script goes through the "Humbug (2009)" folder and finds AlbumArtSmall.jpg <a href="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/34696560/python/ss.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer">which doesn't show up in the command prompt</a> so I tried "Show hidden files/folders" and still nothing. However, <a href="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/34696560/python/hidden.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer">the files show up once I uncheck "Hide protected operating system files"</a>, so that's kinda weird.</p> <p>My question is - <strong>how do I tell Python to skip searching the hidden/protected files?</strong> I checked out the <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7099290/how-to-ignore-hidden-files-using-os-listdir-python">How to ignore hidden files using os.listdir()?</a> but the solution I found there only works for files starting with ".", and that's not what I need.</p> <p>Cheers!</p> <hr> <p>Edit - so here's the code:</p> <pre><code>import os def findCover(path, band, album): print os.path.join(path, band, album) coverFound = False for mFile in os.listdir(os.path.join(path, band, album)): if mFile[-4:] in (".jpg",".bmp",".png"): print "Cover file found - %s." % mFile coverFound = True return coverFound musicFolder = "E:\Music" #for example noCovers = [] for band in os.listdir(musicFolder): #iterate over bands inside the music folder if band[0:] == "Arctic Monkeys": #only Arctic Monkeys print band bandFolder = os.path.join(musicFolder, band) for album in os.listdir(bandFolder): if os.path.isdir(os.path.join(bandFolder,album)): if findCover(musicFolder, band, album): #if cover found pass #do nothing else: print "Cover not found" noCovers.append(band+" - "+album) #append to list else: #if bandFolder is not actually a folder pass print "" </code></pre>
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    1. COA proper answer will depend on how you're walking through your directory, but nevertheless, have you thought about checking the file mode with [os.stat](http://docs.python.org/library/os.html#os.stat)?
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    2. COI've added the code, hope that helps. Anyway, I tried the `os.stat("Folder.jpg")`, this is what I get: `nt.stat_result(st_mode=33206, st_ino=0L, st_dev=0, st_nlink=0, st_uid=0, st_gid=0, st_size=34820L, st_atime=1315277420L, st_mtime=1259528972L, st_ctime=1259525728L)`. I'm not really sure which of the values tells me the file is "protected" or "hidden" for that matter. Hm.
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    3. CODoing the os.stat() on an .mp3 file which is visible returns pretty much the same values: `nt.stat_result(st_mode=33206, st_ino=0L, st_dev=0, st_nlink=0, st_uid=0, st_gid=0, st_size=8379620L, st_atime=1315277422L, st_mtime=1259529036L, st_ctime=1250607460L)`.
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