Riccardo Galli wrote: > I noticed that when I use os.listdir I need to work with absolute paths > 90% of times. > While I can use a for cycle, I'd prefere to use a list comprehension, > but it becomes too long. > > ### e.g. 1 part 1 - getting a list of directories ### > dirs=[] > for i in os.listdir(path): > tmp_path=os.path.join(path,i) > if os.path.isdir(tmp_path): > dirs.append(tmp_path) > > ### e.g. 1 part 2 ### > dirs=[join(path,x) for x in listdir(path) if isdir(join(path,x))]
Using Jason Orendorff's "path" module, all this code basically collapses down to this beauty (with your variable "path" renamed to myPath to avoid a name collision): from path import path dirs = path(myPath).abspath().dirs() -Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list