[Tutor] Fwd: Fwd: Re: Output 'Strings' to directory

[Felisha Lawrence]

Thanks! Thats exactly what my problem was. I fixed it

On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 12:57 PM, Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com>
wrote:

> From: Felisha Lawrence <felisha.lawrence at gmail.com>
>> Date: Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 8:53 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Tutor] Fwd: Re: Output 'Strings' to directory
>> To: Danny Yoo <dyoo at hashcollision.org>
>>
>>
>> Also,
>> I had this code working
>>
>> import os
>>
>> path = '/Users/felishalawrence/testswps/vol1'
>> for file in os.listdir(path):
>>          newFile = file[:file.index("v")]+"v20"
>>
>>          print newFile
>> and now I am getting this error
>>
>> ValueError: substring not found
>>
>> I did not change anything
>>
>
> Have you checked that no new files have been created - possibly by your
> code, that don't conform to your expected naming style?
>
> Try putting a 'print file'  before the name modification to see what the
> name that causes the error looks like.
>
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