Very newbie programming

[TheSaint]

George Sakkis wrote:

> 
> If by 'rooted' you mean old enough, so is 'goto'... 

I was meaning a sort of (very) old style of programming. In fact I wrote
some few hundreds lines on my own, but probably memory was much better
the :)

> will 
> thank yourself for doing so if you have to go back at this code a few
> months later.

I have to admit that's purely true :)
 
> You can set a boolean "found" flag to False, make it True in the if

Thank you to point it out, I forgotten such solution. BTW I was on the way
of an "try/exept". But I should go back study the corect use :)

> from fileinput import FileInput

I'll read the manual (as you pointed hereby) and I think I can read the
entire directory file by file.

> Btw, you can delete a file or directory with os.unlink and os.rmdir,
> respectively; no need for os.system.

I still on learning, you know? :)
Reading is the way to solve some problem, and your suggestions (you all) are
very precious.

F