"Timothy Sikes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > I don't know if it's okay to ask about Dos in python mailing list,
If its related to programming in python as well its fine :-) > I don't know if there are any formatting rules for posting programs It helps if we can see the formatting, especially since Python relies on layout. This was just a mess on my screen! I've tried to sort it out... --------------------------------------- import os, sys, time def earlierThan (path, year, exclude=[]): all = [] walk = os.walk(path) for root, dirs, files in walk: for i in files: try: if (time.localtime(os.path.getmtime(root + "\\" + i))[0] < year and doesNotHave(exclude, root)) : all.append(root + "\\" + i) except OSError: #I think that I might need a more specific error message, #as this one would handle something #That's not necessarily a broken file name. (I got one of them when I ran it). print root + "\\" + i + " was not included in the list" return all def doesNotHave(exclude, root): for x in exclude: if root.startswith(x) > -1: return False return True ---------------------------------------------- That last function is a little odd. startswith already returns a boolean so comparing to -1 is weird. I'm not sure what you think it will do. Consider: >>> 'fred'.startswith('x') False >>> 'fred'.startswith('x') > -1 True >>> 'fred'.startswith('f') > -1 True >>> I'm not sure when it would ever fail the test so I think your function will nearly always return False. > I've had little experience with dos. I believe I should use the > COMPACT, and then the MOVE dos command... Would > it go something like this? You could use these but you'd be better just using Python to do it via the shutil and os modules and avoid the DOS commands completely IMHO. HTH, -- Alan Gauld Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor