On Aug 14, 1:52 pm, Jeremy C B Nicoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What order does info get returned in by os.listdir() ? > > I'm just starting to write python code, on an Win XP Pro machine. I've got > various directories which, when I look at them in Win XP, sorted by name, I > see in order, eg: > > ~prefixed file .txt > A.txt > B.txt > ... > Z.txt > > ie, XP seems to think that files with a "~" as their first character are > sorted ahead of A. > > When I use os.listdir() to return that list of leaf values, I do seem to get > them in alphabetical order, A before B before C etc, but the ~-prefixed ones > are returned after the Z-prefixed files rather than before the A-ones. > > I was wondering why... > > -- > Jeremy C B Nicoll - my opinions are my own.
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