Peter A. Schott wrote: > I want to build a program that does some archiving. We have several programs > that have been dumping files into a folder (one folder) for some time now. I > want to limit the number of files returned by listdir to avoid trying to > build a > list with tons of entries. I then want to move those files into a zip archive > for the appropriate day/month. > > Is there any way to build a list of the first 1000 files or so in a folder? > > Running Python 2.4.2 on Win32 with Win32 extensions. > > Thanks. > > -Pete Schott
Since I assume that all the files are mixed together, I would probably do this as a 2 step process: Step 1 - Use os.walk and iterate over all the files moving them (using os.shutil) into subdirectories based on their day/month information (not sure where this information comes from). Step 2 - Use os.walk to iterate over each of these directories and add all the files contained in each day/month subdirectory into a .zip archive. -Larry Bates -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
