Newbie problem with user input

[Simon Brunning]

> From:	Chris McMillan [SMTP:christopherjmcmillan at eaton.com]
> Hello all!  The partial code below prompts a user to enter a path.  I then
> want it to find (and later do something with) all the files in that
> directory matching the specified string.  The problem is that when I run
> the
> script, and enter, for example D:\test it does not find any of the files.
> I
> believe it is because the glob command is searching for
> ''D:\\test'\\*.dat'
> With the extra single quotes.  How can I get it to search for
> 'D:\\test\\*.dat' ?  Thanks!
> Chris
> 
> print 'Enter the path:'                  # prompt user for directory path
> path = raw_input()
> for fname in glob.glob('path\\*.dat'):   # finds files matching string
 
Try this (untested):

import os, glob

path = raw_input('Enter the Path')
for fname in glob.glob(os.path.join(path, '*.txt')):
    pass # do whatever...

Cheers,
Simon Brunning
TriSystems Ltd.
sbrunning at trisystems.co.uk




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