Here is a program to print out the files in a directory: ----------- import os
myfiles = os.listdir("../") print myfiles for afile in myfiles: print afile if os.path.isfile(afile): print afile, "___file" if os.path.isdir(afile): print afile, "___dir" print ------------ Here is what's in the directory: ---------- $ ls -al ../ total 2576 drwxr-xr-x 8 nnn nnn 272 Jul 1 03:03 . drwxr-xr-x 25 nnn nnn 850 Jul 1 01:34 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 nnn nnn 6148 Jul 1 03:02 .DS_Store -rw-r--r-- 1 nnn nnn 1300000 Jun 27 14:02 aaa.txt drwxr-xr-x 55 nnn nnn 1870 Jul 1 03:09 dir1 -rwxrwxrwx 1 nnn nnn 263 Jun 27 22:40 mytest.py -rw-r--r-- 1 nnn nnn 0 Mar 4 16:15 scratch.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 nnn nnn 275 Apr 11 03:40 xmlFile.xml ------------ Here is the output from my program: ---------- $ python 1test.py ['.DS_Store', 'aaa.txt', 'dir1', 'mytest.py', 'scratch.txt', 'xmlFile.xml'] .DS_Store .DS_Store ___file aaa.txt aaa.txt ___file dir1 mytest.py scratch.txt xmlFile.xml $ -------------- I expected the output: ----------- DS_Store .DS_Store ___file aaa.txt aaa.txt ___file dir1 dir1 ___dir mytest.py mytest.py ___file scratch.txt scratch.txt ___file xmlFile.xml xmlFile.xml ___file ------------ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list