Is there any special reason for deploying that functionality from scratch by yourself? Can't you use os bulit-in module?
Perhaps you can find this useful http://docs.python.org/library/os.html#os.listdir. That way you don't deal with OS peculiarities such as the one Brett Ritter pointed. On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Brett Ritter <swift...@swiftone.org> wrote: > On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 8:17 AM, Tommy Bell <to...@enkelthed.dk> wrote: > > scandir('c:\tmp') > > > this doesnt work, I know why - but i dont know how to fix it. > > The reason it doesnt work is because isfile requires a file, but current > contains a path. > > Not quite. Stick a "print path" as the first line in scandir. > > Notice that it doesn't print out c:\tmp > > The issue is that Windows (Well, DOS, back in the day) decided to use > backslashes as the path separator, where the rest of the world > (mostly) used slashes. This meant that most programming languages use > backslashes to "escape" characters to have special meaning. Putting > "\n" in a string puts in not an "n" but a newline character. \t is a > tab. This causes you (and many other windows programmers) a little > bit of distress today, in many programming languages. > > To have your string recognize that your backslash is an actual real > backslash you can escape it: > scandir('c:\\tmp') > > After that your code should work fine (it runs on my system, but I'm > not on windows). > > This filepath issue has many details you can look up or ask about, but > this should get you started. > > -- > Brett Ritter / SwiftOne > swift...@swiftone.org > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > -- Jorge Romero
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