On Mar 16, 12:12 pm, lampshade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm having some problems with os.path.isdir I think it is something
> simple that I'm overlooking.
>
> #!/usr/bin/python
> import os
>
> my_path = os.path.expanduser("~/pictures/")
> print my_path
> results = os.listdir(my_path)
> for a_result in results:
> if os.path.isdir(str(my_path) + str(a_result)):
Not parts of the problem, but:
(1) you don't need to use str() here.
(2) use os.path.join instead of the + operator, if you are interested
in portable code.
> results.remove(a_result)
>
> for x in results: print x
>
> The problem is, that the directories are never removed. Can anyone
> point out what I'm missing that is causing the bug? Is there a better
> way of doing this?
>
> Thanks,
You are removing directory *NAMES* from the container named "results".
If you want to remove the directories from your filesystem, use
os.rmdir.
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