return statement in functions

[hokieghal99]

Irmen de Jong wrote:
> hokieghal99 wrote:
> 
>> Here's how I call the report function:
>>
>> report(fs_object_count,clean_dir_names,etc., etc.)
>>
> 
> You're forgetting to actually *call* the other functions too,
> (you just pass the functions themselves, as you see in your output,
> Python prints the function objects that you pass to the report
> function).
> So try this:
> 
>  report(fs_object_count(),clean_dir_names(),...)
> 
> these you forgot:      ^^                ^^
> 
> 
> --Irmen

That works, but it only returns the first item in the list. The 
functions are returning a list of paths or of files/dirs. For example, 
the function 'clean_dir_names' should return a complete list of 
directory names that it has removed bad characters from.

def clean_dir_names(path):
    for root, dirs, files in os.walk(path, topdown=False):
       for dname in dirs:
          new_dname = re.sub(bad,'-' ,dname)
          if new_dname != dname:
             newpath = os.path.join(root, new_dname)
             oldpath = os.path.join(root, dname)
             os.renames(oldpath, newpath)
          return new_dname

How do I make the report function see all of the contents of the list 
and not just the first item of the list?

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