[Pythonmac-SIG] Strange ?

[Larry Meyn]

Note, len('HD:Dev:stats usenet:Classement') = 30
Try:

print sys.argv[1:]
files = sys.argv[1:]
for file in files:
     out = file.split(':')[-1]
     if len(out)>30:  out = out[:30] + ' '
     print out


At 6:16 PM +0100 2/3/02, Francois Granger wrote:
>I did a simple script to work info inside some files. It gave me 
>strange results, so I have reduced it to the bare script needed to 
>show the behaviour.
>Config: MacOS 9.1, Python 2.2
>
>Make this script an applet and drop the filenames showed in the list.
>All filenames are different. I expect it to return the full filename 
>plus a space unless the filename is longer than 30 char. In this 
>case, it should return the first 30 char plus a space. But it return 
>only the first word of the name plus a space.
>
>I did test with
>files = os.listdir(os.getcwd())
>and I did not get the same behaviour.
>
># python
>
>import sys, re, os
>
>print sys.argv[1:]
>files = sys.argv[1:]
>for file in files:
>     out = file[:30] + ' '
>     print out
>
>output of the script below.
>====================================================
>['HD:Dev:stats usenet:Classement hebdo020118', 'HD:Dev:stats 
>usenet:Classement hebdo020125', 'HD:Dev:stats usenet:Classement 
>hebdo020201', 'HD:Dev:stats usenet:Classement mensuel 0201', 
>'HD:Dev:stats usenet:Classement hebdo020111']
>HD:Dev:stats usenet:Classement
>HD:Dev:stats usenet:Classement
>HD:Dev:stats usenet:Classement
>HD:Dev:stats usenet:Classement
>HD:Dev:stats usenet:Classement
>====================================================
>
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