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I have a super-simple need to just walk the files in a single directory.
I thought this would do it, but "permanentFilelist" ends up containing
all folders in all subdirectories.
All folders everywhere, or all file (not directory) names in the top
two levels? It looks like the latter to me.
Could someone spot the problem? I've scoured some threads using XNews reg
expressions involving os.walk, but couldn't extrapolate the answer for my
need.
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thebasedir = "E:\\temp"
permanentFilelist= []
for thepath,thedirnames,thefilenames in os.walk(thebasedir):
if thepath != thebasedir:
You wanted == instead of != there. Think about it ;-)
thedirnames[:] = []
for names in thefilenames:
permanentFilelist.append(names)
A simpler way (assuming I understand what you're after) is:
thebasedir = "C:\\tmpold"
for dummy, dummy, permanentFilelist in os.walk(thebasedir):
break
or the possibly more cryptic equivalent:
thebasedir = "C:\\tmpold"
permanentFilelist = os.walk(thebasedir).next()[-1]
or the wordier but transparent:
thebasedir = "C:\\tmpold"
permanentFilelist = [fn for fn in os.listdir(thebasedir)
if os.path.isfile(os.path.join(thebasedir, fn))]
