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# A little sample that walks from the desktop into child
# items.
from win32com.shell import shell,shellcon

def walk(folder, depth=2, indent=""):
    try:
        pidls = folder.EnumObjects(0, shellcon.SHCONTF_FOLDERS)
    except shell.error:
        # no items
        return
    for pidl in pidls:
        dn = folder.GetDisplayNameOf(pidl, 
                                     shellcon.SHGDN_NORMAL)
        print indent, dn
        if depth:
            try:
                child = folder.BindToObject(pidl, None, 
                                      shell.IID_IShellFolder)
            except shell.error:
                pass
            else:
                walk(child, depth-1, indent+" ")

walk(shell.SHGetDesktopFolder())