Represent directory tree as JSON

Question

Is there any easy way to generate such a JSON? I found os.walk() and os.listdir(), so I may do recursive descending into directories and build a py

Answer 1

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.