how to touch a file

[s99999999s2003]

hi

i have a dir that contains directories with names and spaces in between
example

rootdir
| ----> ABC DEF A
| ---> BDD SD N

I wanted to touch a file with the same name as the directories inside
each directory

rootdir
| ----> ABC DEF A
|-------> ABC DEF A-dummy
| ---> BDD SD N
|-------> BDD SD N-dummy

heres the code :
for d in os.walk(rootdir):
(dirpath, dirnames, filenames) = d
for dir in [dirpath]:
if not os.path.exists( os.path.join(dir,"-dummy") ):
f = open( os.path.join(dir,"-dummy") ,
"w").write("")

but i got only "-dummy" as the filename in each directory

How can i deal with spaces in this case? or is there some wrong things
i do in the code?
thanks for any help.

[Diez B. Roggisch]

s9************@yahoo.com wrote:

hi

i have a dir that contains directories with names and spaces in between
example

rootdir
| ----> ABC DEF A
| ---> BDD SD N

I wanted to touch a file with the same name as the directories inside
each directory

rootdir
| ----> ABC DEF A
|-------> ABC DEF A-dummy
| ---> BDD SD N
|-------> BDD SD N-dummy

heres the code :
for d in os.walk(rootdir):
(dirpath, dirnames, filenames) = d
for dir in [dirpath]:
if not os.path.exists( os.path.join(dir,"-dummy") ):
f = open( os.path.join(dir,"-dummy") ,
"w").write("")

but i got only "-dummy" as the filename in each directory

How can i deal with spaces in this case? or is there some wrong things
i do in the code?

os.path.join joins paths with the proper OS-dependend separator. So

os.path.join("a", "b", "c")

becomes

a/b/c

under unix. Naturally, joining dir and "-dummy" produces "<dir>/-dummy" -
which is what you see.

Instead, do something like this:

for d in os.walk(rootdir):
(dirpath, dirnames, filenames) = d
for dir in [dirpath]:
fname = os.path.basename(dir) + "-dummy"
if not os.path.exists( os.path.join(dir,fname) ):
f = open( os.path.join(dir,fname) ,
"w").write("")
Diez