Why doesn't this work as expected?

[Martin von Loewis]

David LeBlanc <whisper at oz.nospamnet> writes:

> I'm trying to build a directory walker, doing some work on each actual 
> file found in each directory. However, when I run the below code snippet 
> on a directory containing both sub-directories and files, it says that 
> all are not dirs.
> 
> What is not right?

You need to concatenate the file name to the path, or change the
working directory:

> def getDirs():
> 	print dircache.listdir("l:/languages/python")
> 
> 	for dir in dircache.listdir("l:/languages/C"):
                dir = "l:/languages/C/"+dir
> 		if os.path.isdir(dir):
> 			print dir, "is a dir"
> 		else:
> 			print dir, "is not a dir"
> 
> getDirs()			

Regards,
Martin