Database System Concepts
Database System Concepts
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ISBN: 9780078022159
Author: Abraham Silberschatz Professor, Henry F. Korth, S. Sudarshan
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Write a recursive function, displayFiles, that expects a pathname as an argument. The path name can be either the name of a file or the name of a directory. If the pathname refers to a file, its filepath is displayed, followed by its contents, like so:

File name: file_path Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit...

Otherwise, if the pathname refers to a directory, the function is applied to each name in the directory, like so:

Directory name: directory_path File name: file_path1 Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet... File name: file_path2 Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet... ...

# Put your code here
import os   #module used to interact with operating system

def displayFiles(pathname):  #recursive function that takes a pathname as argument

  if (os.path.isdir(pathname)):  #checks if specified path (argument) is an existing directory
      #for item in os.listdir(pathname): 
      for content in os.listdir(pathname):  #gets the list of all files and directories in the directory and iterates through the items of this list of directory
          newitem = os.path.join(pathname, item)  #
          #contents = os.path.join(pathname, content)  #joins contents of path
          
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