fnmatch() function

[Psybar Phreak]

os.chdir("c:/my_directory/diaries")

does this do what i think it is and change the working directory?!

if so - THANKS HEAPS!!  id didn't know there wasy anything like this, but
will be a HUGE HELP!!

so does it do what i think it does?!?!  (please say yes!)

daina



"Chris Lawrence" <chris at lordsutch.com> wrote in message
news:slrnbcbf3d.noe.chris at relativity.phy.olemiss.edu...
> In article <3ec580e6$0$15841$afc38c87 at news.optusnet.com.au>, Psybar
> Phreak wrote:
> > hi everyone
> >
> > here's my situation - i have a sub-folder (called diaries) i have some
files
> > and sub-folders within that folder.  the files ahve different extensions
> > (*.dia, *.eve).
> >
> > what i want to do it go through all the files in the folder that end in
> > *.dia, and print the first 2 lines from them.
> >
> > now ive just found the function called fnmatch() (after trying to use
glob
> > only to realise its for PATHname and not FILEnames)
>
> Uh, why not just use glob?  You don't need to specify a full pathname
> in glob.glob().  Try e.g.:
>
> import glob, os, sys
>
> os.chdir("c:/my_directory/diaries") # Change this, or omit it if using .
is OK
> for fn in glob.glob('*.dia'):
>     fob = open(fn, 'r')
>     sys.stdout.writelines([fob.readline(), fob.readline()])
>     fob.close()
>
> You can drop the fob.close() call if you're not worried about a future
> version of Python running out of file descriptors.
>
> If you're in a seriously masochistic mood, you can duplicate the
> functionality of glob.glob() with fnmatch and os.listdir [which is
> essentially what glob does internally anyway], but why bother?
>
>
> Chris
> -- 
> Chris Lawrence <chris at lordsutch.com> - http://blog.lordsutch.com/