asynchronous file path generator

async_get_files.py

# standard libraries
import os
import asyncio
from pathlib import Path


async def get_files(search_path, type_filter=None):
    """ asynchronous file path generator
    """
    p = Path(search_path)
    for i in p.iterdir():
        if i.is_file():
            if not type_filter or i.suffix in type_filter:
                yield i

        if i.is_dir():
            async for f in get_files(str(i), type_filter):
                yield f

if __name__ == "__main__":
    async def foo():
        return [i async for i in get_files("/var/log", ['.log'])]


    loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
    try:
        files = loop.run_until_complete(foo())
    except StopAsyncIteration:
        loop.close()

    print(files)