Hello, I am currently writing a basic program to calculate and display the size of folders with a drive/directory. To do this I am storing each directory in a dict as the key, with the value being the sum of the size of all files in that directories (but not directories).
For example: { "C:\\docs" : 10, "C:\\docs123" : 200, "C:\\docs\\code\\snippets" : 5, "C:\\docs\\code" : 20, "C:\\docs\\pics" : 200, "C:\\docs\\code\\python" : 10 } Then to return the total size of a directory I am searching for a string in the key: For example: for "C:\\docs\\code" in key: Which works fine and will return "C:\\docs\\code" : 20, "C:\\docs\\code\\snippets" : 5, "C:\\docs\\code\\python" : 10 = (35) However it fails when I try to calculate the size of a directory such as "C:\\docs", as it also returns "C:\\docs123". I'd be very grateful if anyone could offer any advice on how to correct this. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor