topic Walk Through folders to find MXDs in Python Questions

Walk Through folders to find MXDs

MaryM — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 18:45:32 GMT

The below works great on MXDs nested directly in a folder, but how do you walk through all the files in folders in the folder?

import arcpy, os
folderPath = r"myfolderpathhere"
for filename in os.listdir(folderPath):
    fullpath = os.path.join(folderPath, filename)
    if os.path.isfile(fullpath):
        basename, extension = os.path.splitext(fullpath)
        if extension.lower() == ".mxd":
            mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument(fullpath)
            mxd.findAndReplaceWorkspacePaths(r"mybeginningoldfoldeepath", r"mybeginningnewfolderpath")
            mxd.save()
del mxd

Re: Walk Through folders to find MXDs

DarrenWiens2 — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 18:48:31 GMT

I think you want os.walk.

Re: Walk Through folders to find MXDs

JeffBarrette — Sat, 11 Dec 2021 14:04:28 GMT

This is one variation:

import os

path = r"C:\Active\ArcPY\ResourceCenter"

i = 0
for (path, dirs, files) in os.walk(path):
  for file in files:
    if file.endswith(".mxd"):
      print os.path.join(path,file)

Jeff