Trying to decide between PHP and Python

[Chris Rebert]

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Dan M <catdude at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Jan 2011 12:20:42 -0800, Google Poster wrote:
>
>> About once a year, I have to learn yet another programming language.
>> Given all the recommendations (an outstanding accolade from Bruce Eckel,
>> author of "Thinking in Java") I have set my aim to Python. Sounds kinda
>> cool.
>>
>> The indentation-as-block is unique, but that is how I always indent,
>> anyway.
>>
>> Can any of you nice folks post a snippet of how to perform a listing of
>> the current directory and save it in a string?
>>
>> Something like this:
>>
>> $ setenv FILES = `ls`
>>
>> Bonus: Let's say that I want to convert the names of the files to
>> lowercase? As 'tolower()'
<snip>
> import os
> import string
> files = string.lower(' '.join(os.listdir('/home/dan')))

Most of the string module has been deprecated for quite a while now;
use string methods instead:

files = ' '.join(os.listdir('/home/dan')).lower()

Cheers,
Chris