questions

[Hans Nowak]

On 2 Oct 00, at 14:09, Xiaoxia Dong wrote:

> i am working on one of the project which needs using python, i am trying
> to read a directory and list all
> the files there according to the directory tree. I am thinking to make
> the directory name bold and trying to
> have some format like a2ps in unix.  I am just writing the output to a
> text file. I don't use any graphical interface. Can anybody help me with
> this?

I'm not sure what you mean here... if you want all files in a certain 
directory, you can use glob:

>>> import glob
>>> glob.glob("c:/PythonWin/*.*")
['c:/PythonWin\\UNWISE.EXE', 'c:/PythonWin\\python.exe',
... etc ... 'c:/PythonWin\\test1.py', 'c:/PythonWin\\logfile.txt', 
'c:/PythonWin\\xref-results.html']

If you want a files in all subdirectories in a tree, you should use 
os.path.walk:

>>> import os
>>> def visit(arg, dirname, names):
	# just an example
	print dirname, ":"
	print names
		
>>> os.path.walk("c:/foo/bar/", visit, 0)
# should print list of subdirectories and their files

Hope this will get you started,

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