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# Hopefully temporary fix for
# https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/issues/450/egg_info-command-is-very-slow-if-there-are
import os
TO_OMIT = ['var', '.git', 'parts', 'bower_components', 'node_modules', 'eggs',
'bin', 'develop-eggs']
orig_os_walk = os.walk
def patched_os_walk(path, *args, **kwargs):
for (dirpath, dirnames, filenames) in orig_os_walk(path, *args, **kwargs):
if '.git' in dirnames:
# We're probably in our own root directory.
print("MONKEY PATCH: omitting a few directories like var/...")
dirnames[:] = list(set(dirnames) - set(TO_OMIT))
yield (dirpath, dirnames, filenames)
os.walk = patched_os_walk
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