On Sun, Aug 02, 2015 at 02:44:15PM -0700, Clayton Kirkwood wrote:
> for dir_path, directories, files in os.walk(main_dir):
> for file in files:
> # print( " file = ", file)
> # if( ("(\.jpg|\.png|\.avi|\.mp4)$") not in file.lower() ):
> # if( (".jpg" or ".png" or ".avi" or ".mp4" ) not in file.lower()
name, ext = os.path.splitext(filename)
if ext.lower() in ('.jpg', '.png', '.avi', '.mp4'):
...
> # del files[file]
> #
> #I get an error on int expected here. If I'm able to access by string, why
> wouldn't I be able to
> #acess in the del?
What are you attempting to do here? files is a list of file names:
files = ['this.jpg', 'that.txt', 'other.pdf']
filename = 'that.txt'
What do you expect files['that.txt'] to do?
The problem has nothing to do with del, the problem is that you are
trying to access the 'that.txt'-th item of a list, and that is
meaningless.
> print( "looking at file ", file, " in top_directory_file_list ",
> top_directory_file_list )
What does this print? In particular, what does the last part,
top_directory_file_list, print? Because the next error:
> if file in top_directory_file_list:
> #error: arg of type int not iterable
is clear that it is an int.
> #yet it works for the for loops
I think you are confusing:
top_directory_file_list
directory_file_list
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