help needed on generator

[Gonçalo Rodrigues]

On Wed, 8 May 2002 21:38:17 -0500, "Mark McEahern"
<marklists at mceahern.com> wrote:

>[Gonçalo Rodrigues]
>
>> I've coded this generator to traverse a directory tree.
>
>1.  First of all, check this out:
>
>  http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/105873
>
>2.  In this section of your code, you are calling the generator:
>
>>         if predicate(dirname):
>>             dirtree(os.path.join(root, dirname), predicate)
>
>But with a generator, you need to iterate over it.  Consider replacing the
>second line there with this:
>
>            for x in dirtree(os.path.join(root, dirname), predicate):
>                yield x
>
>> When I feed "C:" to the sucker (run as script) only "C:" gets printed.
>> Can anyone point out to me what I am doing wrong?
>
>3.  Why C: and not r'C:\'?  C: is the current directory on C:, true?  Maybe
>that's what you want, eh?

I did feed "C:\\" but it got trimmed when writing the post.

>
>I hope this helps.

Yes. Now that the error was pointed *it is obvious*.

>
>Cheers,
>
>// mark

Thanx to all that answered,
Gonçalo Rodrigues