confusion regarding os.path.walk()

[Ron Johnson]

On 19 Feb 2002 01:33:52 +0100 Chris Liechti <cliechti at gmx.net> wrote:

> Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson at cox.net> wrote in 
> news:20020218180623.086f6c58.ron.l.johnson at cox.net:
> > In the visit callout function, it looks as though after the top
> > level is processed, os.path.isfile() and os.path.isdir() both return 
> > 0 when passed elements from the names parameter.
> ...
> >     for n in names:
> >    	    	print n,
> >    	    	if os.path.isdir(n):
> >          ...
> 
> in "names" there are only filenames with no path. to access the files 
> you must join the path back to the name:
> 
> for n in names:
>     	file = os.path.join(path, n)
>     	print file,
>     	if os.path.isdir(file): 
>     	...

Thinking that that might be the problem, I used os.path.realpath().
However, even that didn't work.  Why wouldn't testing an absolute
filename work?

os.path.join() worked.  Thanks.

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