How to get the full path of a directory given only the name of the directory in python

Question

I am working on a pydev project where for some reason I consider a web application. I have the path of one file of the web application project. say I have -

C:\webflow_implementaton\SpringWebFlowFlightBooking-master\src\main\java\it\iol\springwebflow\Booking.java

With this information can I fetch the path where the "webapp" folder is located in the web application? Is it possible in python?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Would os.walk work for your case? Very rough example written below, im sure there is a quicker way to do it.

It takes your path, splits it such that you can go back to a default folder level of your choice. Then uses os.walk to go through all folders until it finds webapp.

import os

path = 'C:\\webflow_implementaton\\SpringWebFlowFlightBooking-master\\
        src\\main\\java\\it\\iol\\springwebflow\\Booking.java'

path_split = path.split("\\")[::-1]

#default folder depth to use
folders_deep = 1

for i in path_split[0:folders_deep]:
    path = path.replace("\\"+i,"")
print (path)

list_dir = os.walk(path)
for root, dirs, files in os.walk(path, topdown=False):
    for name in dirs:
        if "webapp" in name: 
            print(os.path.join(root, name))
        else:
            print("Folder not found")