kpp9c wrote: > that is nice.... but the little further wrinkle, which i have no idea > how to do, would be to have the contents of each directory packed into > a different list.... since you have no idea before hand how many lists > you will need (how many subdirs you will enounter) ... well that is > where the hairy part comes in...
What's the problem? If you'll get an unknown bundle of objects in a program, you just put them in a container. A list or a dict will do fine. Have a look at the Python tutorial. You get a file list for each directory from os.walk. You either keep a list called "directories" and for each turn in the loop, you do "directories.append((dir, sound_files))", or you have a dict called "directories", and do "directories[dir] = sound_files" in the loop. Something like this untested code: def isSoundFile(x): # home work dirs = {} root = raw_input('start directory') for dir, dummy, files in os.walk(root): dirs[dir] = [x for x in files if isSoundFile(x)] for dir in sorted(dirs): print dir for fn in dirs[dir]: print "\t", fn print -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list