[Tutor] Remove

[Lloyd Kvam]

I would add some exception handling and some print statements.  If there is too much to print, use a log file. (e.g.  print >> logfile, "removed %s" % (item)   )

I inserted suggested changes below.  Is there a higher level try that is hiding a ValueError???

Jon Cosby wrote:
> 
> I'm doing a Web search that is succesful until I try to configure it to
> ignore specified directories using the "remove" operation. I'm not getting
> any error messages, but the script stops when it comes to the function
> below. I've run the first few lines in the interpreter, and I can't see
> anything wrong with it. Any ideas?
> 
> def getFile(text, dir):
>         hits = []
>         dl = os.listdir(dir)
>         for item in ignore:     # List of directories to ignore
		try:
>                 dl.remove(item)   # Works in interpreter, but list comes up empty here
		  print "removed %s" % (item)
		except ValueError:
		  print "item %s is not present in list" % item
		  raise ValueError
>         text = string.lower(text)
>         for d in dl:
>                 d = dir + '\\' + d
>                 if os.path.isfile(d):
>                         hits.extend(searchtext(d, text))
>                 elif os.path.isdir(d):
>                         hits.extend(getFile(text, d))
>         return hits
> 
> Jon Cosby
> 
> jcosby@mindspring.com
> www.jcosby.com
> 
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