Dealing with files...

[Alex Martelli]

George Kinney wrote:

> "lost" <lost at soul.net> wrote in message
> news:pan.2003.04.25.23.29.48.204375 at soul.net...
>> On Fri, 25 Apr 2003 22:51:12 +0000, Alex Martelli wrote:
>> Hi Alex,
>> sorry i wasn't a bit more specific in what i needed, but what you posted
>> was exactly what i was looking for!  Thanks a lot.
>>
> 
> FWIW, theres also:
> 
> from glob import glob
> file_list = glob.glob(SomePath)
> outfile = open(OutputFilename, 'w')
> 
> for file in file_list :
>     print file
>     outfile.write(file + '\n')
> 
> outfile.close()

Yes, but - I suggest you AVOID using names of builtin types as names
for your own variables; it's a habit that will eventually "bite" you,
wasting some of your time in the chase for some obscure bug.  Just
code the for loop more readably as:

for filename in file_list :
    print filename
    outfile.write(filename + '\n')

and I think the quality of your code gets substantially enhanced.


Alex