Claude’s current preferred way of importing a file structure and contents

generage_project_docs.py

import os

def create_file_structure(base_path="."):
    file_structure = {}

    for root, dirs, files in os.walk(base_path):
        relative_path = os.path.relpath(root, base_path)

        for dir_name in dirs:
            file_structure[os.path.join(relative_path, dir_name)] = {}

        for file_name in files:
            file_path = os.path.join(root, file_name)
            relative_file_path = os.path.join(relative_path, file_name)
            try:
                with open(file_path, "r", encoding="utf-8") as file:
                    file_structure[relative_file_path] = file.read()
            except UnicodeDecodeError:
                try:
                    with open(file_path, "r", encoding="latin-1") as file:
                        file_structure[relative_file_path] = file.read()
                except UnicodeDecodeError:
                    print(f"Skipping file: {file_path} (unsupported encoding)")
                    continue

    return file_structure

def generate_documents(file_structure):
    documents = ""
    for path, content in file_structure.items():
        if isinstance(content, dict):
            for sub_path, sub_content in content.items():
                documents += f"""
<documents>
  <document index="{len(documents.split('<document'))}">
    <source>{os.path.join(path, sub_path)}</source>
    <document_content>
{sub_content}
    </document_content>
  </document>
</documents>
"""
        else:
            documents += f"""
<documents>
  <document index="{len(documents.split('<document'))}">
    <source>{path}</source>
    <document_content>
{content}
    </document_content>
  </document>
</documents>
"""
    return documents

def main():
    file_structure = create_file_structure()
    documents = generate_documents(file_structure)
    print(documents)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()