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[Dale Strickland-Clark]

Thanks. I got it working.

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Dale Strickland-Clark
Out-Think Ltd, UK
Business Technology Consultants

Robert Cragie <rcc at nospamthanks_jennic.com> wrote in message
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> The following works properly:
>
> def walk(dir, dent = 1):
>     print ">" * dent, dir
>     for item in os.listdir(dir):
>         if os.path.isdir(dir + '\\' + item):
>             walk(dir + '\\' + item, dent + 3)
>         else:
>             print " " * dent, item
>
> print "\n\n\n\n"
>
> walk("C:\\program files\\python\\")
>
> Robert Cragie
>
> Dale Strickland-Clark <dale at out-think.NOSPAMco.uk> wrote in message
> news:8epob5$jnk$1 at supernews.com...
> | I'm learning Python - just for the hell of it really - but I don't
> | understand what's going on here:
> |
> | import os
> |
> | def walk(dir, dent = 1):
> |     print ">" * dent, dir
> |     for item in os.listdir(dir):
> |         if os.path.isdir(dir + item):
> |             walk(dir + item, dent + 3)
> |         else:
> |             print " " * dent, item
> |
> | print "\n\n\n\n"
> |
> | walk("C:\\program files\\python\\")
> |
> |
> | If I run the above code, it throws an "OSError: [Errno 3] No such
process"
> | error at the 'for' statement.
> |
> | This is on NT 4 and the os.listdir(whatever) works fine interactively.
> |
> | I know there's a walk function already but I'm trying to get the hang of
> | this.
> |
> | Thanks for any help.
> |
> | --
> | Dale Strickland-Clark
> | Out-Think Ltd, UK
> | Business Technology Consultants
> |
> |
> |
>
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