> 1) You need to either use raw string for your pathnames or use forward > slashes. > This is because backslash is an escape character to Python and if you get > any legal escaped sequence (like \n, \t, etc) it won't work as expected. > > songs = glob.glob(r'C:\Documents and Settings\Admin\My > Documents\LimeWire\Saved\*.mp3') > > or > > songs = glob.glob('C:/Documents and Settings/Admin/My > Documents/LimeWire/Saved/*.mp3') > > Yes, forward slashes work just fine on windows. > > 2) When you have a list (songs) and append another list (asongs) you don't > get a combined list, you get a list with the last element being the second > list. > > example: > > >>> songs = [1,2,3] > >>> asongs = [4,5,6] > >>> songs.append(asongs) > >>> songs > [1, 2, 3, [4, 5, 6]] > >>> > > What you wanted was songs.extend(asongs). BTW-Inserting a couple of print > statements would have shown you this problem pretty quickly. > > -Larry >
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