program with raw_input prompt behaves differently after compile

[tim]

I want to write a program that looks into a given folder, groups files
that have a certain part of the filename in common and then copy those
groups one at a time to another place, using the raw_input prompt to
continue or break.

here's what I have:

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def makegroepen():
global p
import os
from longestcommonpr efix import longestcommonpr efix
p = raw_input('path ')
l = os.listdir(p)
l.sort()
groepen=[]
groep=[]
basenames=[]
for r in l:
if r.find('_poly16 .mp3'):
baselist = r.split('_')
mopobasename = baselist[0]
if mpbasename not in basenames:

basenames.appen d(mpbasename)
for s in l:

if
longestcommonpr efix([s,mpbasename])==mpbasename:
print mpbasename
if s not in groep:
groep.append(s)
if len(groep)==6:
groepen.append( groep)
groep=[]
print groepen
return groepen
def movegr():
global p, groepen
for t in groepen:
contprompt=raw_ input('continue ? (n to stop)')
if contprompt=='n' :
break
for curr in t:
if os.path.isfile( p+'\\'+curr):
tempfile = open(p+'\\'+cur r, 'rb')
tempfile.seek(0 )
tempfilecont = tempfile.read()
dircondition = os.path.exists( 'c:\\content\\w orkfolder')
if dircondition == False:
os.makedirs('c: \\content\\work folder')
destfile = open('c:\\conte nt\\workfolder\ \'+curr, 'wb')
destfile.write( tempfilecont)
destfile.close( )
if __name__=='__ma in__':
global groepen
groepen = makegroepen()
movegr()

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(I renamed 'commonprefix' to 'longestcommonp refix', it is actually just
the 'binary search version' I found at
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Coo.../Recipe/252177 )

It works fine when I run this from PythonWin IDE, but after compiling an
executable from it (py2exe) it exits whatever I type in the 'continue?'
prompt.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks,
Tim

[Hans Nowak]

tim wrote:

I want to write a program that looks into a given folder, groups files
that have a certain part of the filename in common and then copy those
groups one at a time to another place, using the raw_input prompt to
continue or break.

[...]

It works fine when I run this from PythonWin IDE, but after compiling an
executable from it (py2exe) it exits whatever I type in the 'continue?'
prompt.
What am I doing wrong?

Maybe this helps:

http://forums.devshed.com/python-pro...or-187633.html

The solution described here was to compile the program as a console app,
rather than a Windows app.

--
Hans Nowak
http://zephyrfalcon.org/

[tim]

It was kindof a stupid mistake on my part: I had to put 'import os' at
the very beginning, and not only in one of my two function definitions.
Thanks anyway, thanks to your link I also found how to change the colour
of the console...neat :p !
Tim

Hans Nowak wrote:

tim wrote:

I want to write a program that looks into a given folder, groups files
that have a certain part of the filename in common and then copy those
groups one at a time to another place, using the raw_input prompt to
continue or break.

[...]

It works fine when I run this from PythonWin IDE, but after compiling an
executable from it (py2exe) it exits whatever I type in the 'continue?'
prompt.
What am I doing wrong?

Maybe this helps:

http://forums.devshed.com/python-pro...or-187633.html

The solution described here was to compile the program as a console app,
rather than a Windows app.