[Tutor] listdir()

Jeff Shannon jeff at ccvcorp.com
Fri Jul 2 21:24:30 EDT 2004


Ole Jensen wrote:

> Jeff Shannon wrote:
> 
>>Look into the os.isdir() function, which will tell you easily whether 
>>a given pathname is a directory or not.  You will, however, need to do 
>>your own sorting if you want directories to appear before regular 
>>files.  (Of course, you'd probably want to sort entries anyhow, since 
>>IIRC the ordering returned by os.listdir() is arbitrary.)
> 
> 
> I guess you mean os.path.isdir()... I'll have a look at it.
> Thanks.

Ah, yes, I was replying from memory, and the details sometimes slip...

> IIRC - what's that?

IIRC == if I remember correctly

Jeff Shannon
Technician/Programmer
Credit International





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