file handling in a server (.py) file using xmlrpc

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Jeremy Jones wrote:

>>The script executes, no error messages, but the glob call turns up nothing
>>while the identical call running from a console does in fact turn up files
>>names as expected.
>>  
>>
> Wild guess, but I'm thinking your webserver process doesn't have
> permissions to look in your directory.
> 
> Following is alternating root shell and IPython shell:
> 
> root at qiwi:~ # chmod 777 /bam
> root at qiwi:~ # ls -ld /bam
> drwxrwxrwx  2 root root 96 Jul  8 14:53 /bam
> 
> In [4]: glob.glob("/bam/*txt")
> Out[4]: ['/bam/foo.txt', '/bam/bar.txt']
> 
> root at qiwi:~ # chmod 000 /bam
> root at qiwi:~ # ls -ld /bam
> d---------  2 root root 96 Jul  8 14:53 /bam
> 
> In [5]: glob.glob("/bam/*txt")
> Out[5]: []
> 
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Jeremy Jones


Thanks!  Thing does work when I do globs of the local apache directories.