OK. I've search on google groups and around the web for this and I
haven't found an answer. I'm a Python newbie and have what I assume is
a basic question. os.listdir takes a pathname as an arg but it doesn't
actually list the contents of the dir I pass in. it always operates on
the current dir (wherever the script is run) and I have to chdir
beforehand. Is that how its supposed to work? If so what is the point
in passing in a pathname?
thanks,
Jason 11 23036
Jason Kratz wrote: OK. I've search on google groups and around the web for this and I haven't found an answer. I'm a Python newbie and have what I assume is a basic question. os.listdir takes a pathname as an arg but it doesn't actually list the contents of the dir I pass in. it always operates on the current dir (wherever the script is run) and I have to chdir beforehand. Is that how its supposed to work? If so what is the point in passing in a pathname?
thanks,
Jason
oops. almost forgot. if I run interactively in the python interpreter
it works as I expect. its when doing 'python script.py' from the
command line that it only uses the current directory.
Jason Kratz wrote: oops. almost forgot. if I run interactively in the python interpreter it works as I expect. its when doing 'python script.py' from the command line that it only uses the current directory.
Never heard of any such thing. It's likely that your script is not
quite doing what you expect it to.
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On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 02:22:36 GMT, Jason Kratz wrote: os.listdir takes a pathname as an arg but it doesn't actually list the contents of the dir I pass in.
Please reduce the problem to a simple script that others can examine,
and post it here. If the behaviour is as you say, it should be only a
few lines long:
import os
os.listdir( 'somethingyouth inkshouldwork' )
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Here is more clarification. Here is my script called backup.py
import os.path
import os
def getdirs(path):
dirs = []
os.chdir(path)
for entry in os.listdir(path ):
if os.path.isdir(e ntry):
dirs.append(ent ry)
return dirs
print getdirs('/')
if I run this from the command line on linux with 'python backup.py' it
works *if* I have os.chdir in there. if I comment it out it doesnt list
starting from the root dir...it starts in my home dir.
If go into the interactive command mode by just typing 'python' at the
prompt and do:
import os
os.listdir('/') then it prints out the dirs under root.
incidentally this happens on windows as well
Jason Kratz wrote: OK. I've search on google groups and around the web for this and I haven't found an answer. I'm a Python newbie and have what I assume is a basic question. os.listdir takes a pathname as an arg but it doesn't actually list the contents of the dir I pass in. it always operates on the current dir (wherever the script is run) and I have to chdir beforehand. Is that how its supposed to work? If so what is the point in passing in a pathname?
thanks,
Jason
>>>>> "Jason" == Jason Kratz <ea*@joes.com > writes:
Jason> oops. almost forgot. if I run interactively in the python
Jason> interpreter it works as I expect. its when doing 'python
Jason> script.py' from the command line that it only uses the
Jason> current directory.
Code, we need more code. Please post an example, your platform, and
python version.
The following works for me on linux w/ python2.2 called as python scriptname.py
import os
print os.listdir('/home/jdhunter')
print os.listdir('/home/jdhunter/python')
and the same script (w/ different test paths) works on win32 w/ python
2.2.
JDH
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 02:57:33 GMT, Jason Kratz wrote: Here is more clarification. Here is my script called backup.py
Again, I'll ask you to reduce this to a single, isolated incident of
os.listdir() that doesn't act as you expect.
If the failure *depends* on the rest of the script, then it's more
complex than "os.listdir () doesn't list the current directory". It may,
in fact, have nothing to do with os.listdir() at all.
Reducing the test case to a single os.listdir() instance will aid you as
well as us, since you'll be able to have a much better understanding of
what's going on.
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Ben Finney wrote: On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 02:22:36 GMT, Jason Kratz wrote:
os.listdir takes a pathname as an arg but it doesn't actually list the contents of the dir I pass in.
Please reduce the problem to a simple script that others can examine, and post it here. If the behaviour is as you say, it should be only a few lines long:
import os os.listdir( 'somethingyouth inkshouldwork' )
Ben...I tried the above in a new script file (with print os.listdir) and
it works as I thought my other should. Which means i'm doing something
wrong when passing the path in to my function but I'm not sure what. ugh.
Ben Finney wrote: On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 03:06:04 GMT, Jason Kratz wrote:
Ben Finney wrote:
Please reduce the problem to a simple script
Ben...I tried the above in a new script file (with print os.listdir) and it works as I thought my other should. Which means i'm doing something wrong when passing the path in to my function but I'm not sure what. ugh.
Congratulations ! You've learned an immensely valuable debugging technique: Reduce the problem behaviour to the *minimum necessary code* to reproduce the problem; otherwise, you're searhing in code that, it turns out, has absolutely no bearing on the problem.
(This leads, in turn, to the principle that writing less code in the first place leads to fewer bugs -- but that will come naturally as you learn Python :-)
aha! I found it! its the call to os.path.isdir. I'm not passing it
a real pathname....jus t a string. I need to set my entries in my dir
list as real pathnames (ie: with the slashes)...not just the text.
question is how ;)
Jason Kratz wrote: def getdirs(path): os.chdir(path) for entry in os.listdir(path ): if os.path.isdir(e ntry): dirs.append(ent ry)
if I run this from the command line on linux with 'python backup.py' it works *if* I have os.chdir in there. if I comment it out it doesnt list starting from the root dir...it starts in my home dir.
This might mean you are not passing it an absolute path, but
instead a relative one. Absolute paths (on Linux) are those
which start with a / (forward slash). Anything without that
will start from the current directory only.
But without actual examples of which paths are failing, as
Ben has asked for, we know nothing for certain.
Is it also possible that you are not having a problem with listdir()
at all, but with the values you are passing to os.path.isdir() ?
You realize that os.listdir() returns names that are *relative*
to the path parameter you give it? So that if you then pass those
to isdir() you will get nothing useful if you don't first do
this instead? :
entry = os.path.join(pa th, entry)
if os.path.isdir(e ntry):
dirs.append(ent ry)
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