📁 tree.py

tree.py is a lightweight Python script that generates a clean directory tree representation of your folder structure and saves it to a structure.txt file. It automatically ignores common temporary and environment files like .pyc, .git, __pycache__, node_modules, etc.

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✨ Features

• Outputs a visual tree structure to structure.txt
• Ignores clutter like:
  • Virtual environments (.venv, .mypy_cache, etc.)
  • Temporary/system files (.DS_Store, .log, .tmp, etc.)
  • Build and IDE folders (__pycache__, .vscode, .idea, etc.)
• Works recursively for all subfolders
• Simple CLI usage

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📦 Installation

No installation required. Just make sure you have Python 3 installed.

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🚀 Usage

python tree.py [folder_path]

Example

To scan the current directory:

python tree.py

To scan a specific folder:

python tree.py /path/to/your/folder

This will create a file named structure.txt in the same directory where the script is run, containing the folder tree.

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🧼 Ignored Items

By default, the script ignores:

Folders

• .git
• .venv
• __pycache__
• node_modules
• .vscode, .idea, .mypy_cache

Files

• .DS_Store
• Thumbs.db

Extensions

• .pyc
• .pyo
• .log
• .tmp
• .bak

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📄 Output Format

your-folder/
├── file1.txt
├── subfolder1/
│   └── file2.md
└── subfolder2/
    ├── file3.py
    └── nested/
        └── file4.txt

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🛠️ Customization

Feel free to modify the IGNORED_* sets in the script if you want to adjust which files or folders should be skipped.

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🤖 Author Note

This script was created entirely through prompt engineering using generative AI (ChatGPT). The author's role was to guide and instruct the AI step-by-step to produce a useful and clean solution.

📜 License

MIT License – free to use and modify.