[Tutor] listdir

[Peter Brown]

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At 20:42 11/01/04 -0800, you wrote:
>I was trying to use listdir to look into the contents
>of a file on my Win2K system.  According to the online
>docs, I should be able to do this, but instead, I get
>the following error message:
>
> >>> import os
> >>> listdir('C:\Documents and Settings\Christstopher
>Spears\My Documents\python')
>
>Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<pyshell#1>", line 1, in -toplevel-
>     listdir('C:\Documents and Settings\Christstopher
>Spears\My Documents\python')
>NameError: name 'listdir' is not defined
>
>What does this mean?  I have the same problem when I
>try to rename a file.
>
>
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Chris,

You haven't fully qualified name.

if you use
 >>>import os
you have to fully qualify the function
 >>> a= os.listdir('e:/voip')
 >>> a
['04-iad.pdf']

or use
 >>>from os import listdir
 >>>a=listdir('e:/voip')
 >>> a
['04-iad.pdf']

If more than one file in directory naturally you get more file names in list

Peter