def walklevel(path, depth = -1, **kwargs):
        """It works just like os.walk, but you can pass it a level parameter
        that indicates how deep the recursion will go.
        If depth is -1 (or less than 0), the full depth is walked.
        """
        # if depth is negative, just walk
        if depth < 0:
            for root, dirs, files in os.walk(path, **kwargs):
                yield root, dirs, files

        # path.count works because is a file has a "/" it will show up in the list
        # as a ":"
        path    = path.rstrip(os.path.sep)
        num_sep = path.count(os.path.sep)
        for root, dirs, files in os.walk(path, **kwargs):
            yield root, dirs, files
            num_sep_this = root.count(os.path.sep)
            if num_sep + depth <= num_sep_this:
                del dirs[:]
It works just like os.walk, but you can pass it a level parameter
        that indicates how deep the recursion will go.
        If depth is -1 (or less than 0), the full depth is walked.