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I use an out-of-tree builds with CMake. I have a CMake custom command that generates *_pb2.py files from proto-files. Since proto-files may reside in an unknown number of subdirectories (package namespace), like $SRC/package1/package2/file.proto, then the build directory will contain something like $BLD/package1/package2/file_pb2.py.

I want to implicitly make packages from auto-generated *_pb2.py files and, thus, I want to automagically generate __init__.py files in all subfolders ($BLD/package1, $BLD/package1/package2, etc.) and then install them.

How can I do that?

P.S. I've tried macro from CMake : How to get the name of all subdirectories of a directory? (changed GLOB to GLOB_RECURSE) but it returns only subdirs that contain files. I can't get package1 subdir from example above.

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If you are working under a *NIX os (including mac) you could use the shell find command like:

ROOT="./"
for DIR in $(find $ROOT -type d); do
    touch $DIR/__init__.py
done

or with a python script:

from os.path import isdir, walk, join

root = "/path/to/project"
finit = '__init__.py'
def visitor(arg, dirname, fnames):
    fnames = [fname for fname in fnames if isdir(fname)]
    # here you could do some additional checks ...
    print "adding %s to : %s" %(finit, dirname)
    with open(join(dirname, finit), 'w') as file_: file_.write('')

walk(root, visitor, None)
Don Question
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The following should give you a list of directories as required in the variable AllPaths:

# Get paths to all .py files (relative to build dir)
file(GLOB_RECURSE SubDirs RELATIVE ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR} "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/*.py")
# Clear the variable AllPaths ready to take the list of results
set(AllPaths)
foreach(SubDir ${SubDirs})
  # Strip the filename from the path
  get_filename_component(SubDir ${SubDir} PATH)
  # Change the path to a semi-colon separated list
  string(REPLACE "/" ";" PathParts ${SubDir})
  # Incrementally rebuild path, appending each partial path to list of results
  set(RebuiltPath ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR})
  foreach(PathPart ${PathParts})
    set(RebuiltPath "${RebuiltPath}/${PathPart}")
    set(AllPaths ${AllPaths} ${RebuiltPath})
  endforeach()
endforeach()
# Remove duplicates
list(REMOVE_DUPLICATES AllPaths)
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Here's a one-line version of the other answer at https://stackoverflow.com/a/11449316/827437:

find $DIR -type d -exec touch {}/__init__.py \;

This creates an __init__.py file within every directory in $DIR, by executing the touch command. Run find $DIR -type d to see the directories that will include the file.

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