Veeeeery Basic Question

[Fredrik Lundh]

Eric Stewart <ericstewart at mindspring.com> wrote:
> I guess this will be a CGI script that will run in the Directory
> cgi-bin, which will be referenced by the HTML.

sure.  but if this is really your first script,
you better play with it a while before you
try to run it under the web server...

> The image files which i will select from will be in a seperate
> directory, i.e C:Web Stuff\Images
>
> Here is the problem I'm having.  (Understand that I've NEVER written
> anything before).  How do I iterate over the image files in the
> directory?  I thought that a for loop would work.  sort of...
>
> import random
>
> for myFiles in someDirectory:
>    myImage=random.choice(Myfiles)
>    return myImage

here's a start:

...

import os
import random

# get a list of files
myFiles = os.listdir("c:/Web Stuff/Images")

# pick a random file from that list
print random.choice(myFiles)

...

hope this helps (a little bit, at least)

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