How can I debug silent failure - print no output

[Sayth Renshaw]

On Saturday, 28 May 2016 19:44:53 UTC+10, Sayth Renshaw  wrote:
> On Saturday, 28 May 2016 18:02:06 UTC+10, Sayth Renshaw  wrote:
> > So how do i get argparse to read the file arguments correctly?
> > 
> > Looking at the namespace it all gets pushed into path and extension remains empty.
> > 
> > [sayth at localhost pyXML]$ python3 racemeeting.py data/ *.xml
> > Namespace(extension='', path=['data/', '*.xml'])
> > 
> > This is the section I am running
> > 
> > parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
> > parser.add_argument("path", nargs="+")
> > parser.add_argument('-e', '--extension', default='',
> >                     help='File extension to filter by.')
> > 
> > args = parser.parse_args()
> > name_pattern = "*" + args.extension
> > print(args)
> > 
> > Sayth
> 
> Ah if only i used argparse properly
> 
> python racemeeting.py data/ -e *.xml
> 
> Sayth

Which means I can rewrite it like this.

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument("path", type=str, nargs="+")
parser.add_argument('-e', '--extension', default='',
                    help='File extension to filter by.')

args = parser.parse_args()
name_pattern = "*" + args.extension
my_dir = args.path[0]

for dir_path, subdir_list, file_list in os.walk(my_dir):
    for name_pattern in file_list:
        full_path = os.path.join(dir_path, name_pattern)

Cheers

Sayth