On Sunday 14 May 2006 05:09, Gary Wessle wrote: > Hi > > I am looping through a directory and appending all the files in one > huge file, the codes below should give the same end results but are > not, I don't understand why the first code is not doing it. > > thanks >
Hi there - I think you might need to give a more whole code sample when asking this question, as it's all a bit ambiguous - for instance "file" is a type, like "string" or "list" but... > > combined = open(outputFile, 'wb') > > for name in flist: > if os.path.isdir(file): continue ^If you can successfully get past this line, you must have reused "file" to describe a string (which is probably quite a *BAD* idea ;) ) and just not included some of the code... BUT > > infile = open(os.path.join(file), 'rb') > This line suggests it's a list, so I don't know. Argh. Anyway, I'm not being pernickety, just pointing out that it's a little too ambiguous - the code sample you gave alone would not work at all.. > # CODE 1 this does not work > tx = infile.read(1000) > if tx == "": break<<<<< > combined.write(tx) > infile.close()<<<<<<<<< > > # CODE 2 but this works fine > for line in infile: > combined.write(line) > infile.close() > > combined.close() Hope to help when you post back, Cheers, Ten -- There are 10 types of people in this world, those who understand binary, and those who don't. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list