glob.glob output

[Hitesh]

On Mar 12, 4:33 pm, Bruno Desthuilliers
<bdesth.quelquech... at free.quelquepart.fr> wrote:
> Hitesh a écrit :
>
> > import string
> > import os
>
> > f = open ("c:\\servername.txt", 'r')
> > linelist = f.read()
>
> > lineLog = string.split(linelist, '\n')
> > lineLog = lineLog [:-1]
> > #print lineLog
> > for l in lineLog:
> >     path1 = "\\\\" + l + "\\server*\\*\\xtRec*"
> >     glob.glob(path1)
>
> And ? What are you doing then with return value of glob.glob ?
>
> BTW, seems like an arbitrarily overcomplicated way to do:
>
> from glob import glob
> source = open(r"c:\\servername.txt", 'r')
> try:
>    for line in source:
>      if line.strip():
>        found = glob(r"\\%s\server*\*\xtRec*" % line)
>        print "\n".join(found)
> finally:
>    source.close()
>
> > When I run above from command line python, It prints the output of
> > glob.glob
> > but when I run it as a script, it does not print
> > anything....
>
> Not without an explicit print statement. This behaviour is useful in the
> interactive python shell, but would be really annoying in normal use.
>
> > I know that there are files like xtRec* inside those
> > folders.. and glob.glob does spits the path if run from python command
> > line.
>
> > I tried something like this but did not work:
> > for l in lineLog:
> >     path1 = "\\\\" + l + "\\server*\\*\\xtRec*"
> >     xtRec = glob.glob(path1)
> >     print xtRec
>
> > No results...
>
> With the same source file, on the same filesystem ? Unless your xtRec*
> files have been deleted between both tests you should have something here.
>
> > xtRec = []
> > for l in lineLog:
> >     path1 = "\\\\" + l + "\\server*\\*\\xtRec*"
> >     xtrec = glob.glob(path1)
>
> You're rebinding xtRec each turn. This is probably not what you want.


Thank you for your reply.
>From the return value I am trying to figure out whether the file
xtRec* exist or not.
I am newbie so exuse my ignorance... still learning.
Somehow when I tried your solution, it takes 10mins to scan 200 plus
servers but when I tried my code, it takes less then 2 mins.
This is a puzzle for me, I gotta figure it out.

hj