directory listing

[Peter Hansen]

Shi Mu wrote:
> On 11/11/05, Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at pythonware.com> wrote:
>>Shi Mu wrote:
>>>def buildList( directory='c:\TEMP' ):
>>>    dirs = [ ]
>>>    listing = os.listdir(directory)
>>>    for x in listing:
>>>        x = os.path.join(directory, x)
>>>        print x
>>>        if os.path.isdir(x):
>>>            dirs.append(x)
>>>    return dirs
> 
> It works but i am curious why the line of "print x" does not show
> anything. many thanks!

Did you use directory='c:\TEMP' as shown above, or directory='c:\temp' ? 
  If you used the lower case version, you are not really checking the 
temp directory, since \t represents a TAB character.  If that's the 
case, try using a forward slash instead: c:/temp .

-Peter