<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Pythonese/Efficiency/Generalese critique please</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Monaco; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">I'm new to Python and as an exercise created a little utility module.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">I'm learning from the O'Reilly books and updating that understanding from the 2.4 documentation.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">The utility produces a csv file of a specified directory tree for import to a spreadsheet application. My first attempt employed os.walk(), but I found converting the results of such more troublesome than the recursive approach of this version.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Including the module code in this email puts it a little over the 40K limit (lots of comments) so I uploaded it to my dotMac iDisk:</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><A href="http://homepage.mac.com/lee_cullens/dirtss.py.zip">http://homepage.mac.com/lee_cullens/dirtss.py.zip</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">On a Mac (at least) the .py is recognized as an executable and warns of such so Ctrl click (right click) and open with your programming text editor. It would fail to run anyway without arguments. </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">I would appreciate any comments you see fit to offer.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Monaco; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Thank you,</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Lee C</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Dual 2.5 Power Macintosh G5 (OS 10.4.1)</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Monaco; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Monaco; min-height: 16px; "></DIV></BODY></HTML>