newbie wants to compile python list of filenames in selected directories

[Greg Krohn]

anthonyberet wrote:
> Hi, I am new at Python, and very rusty at the one language I was good 
> at, which was BASIC.
> 
> I want to write a script to compare filenames in chosen directories, on 
> windows machines. Ideally it would compose a list of strings of all the 
> filenames in the directories, and those directories would be chosable by 
> the user of the script.
> 
> I am quite happy to do my own legwork on this , I realise it is simple 
> stuff, but can anyone point me in the right direction to start?
> 
> Thanks

os.listdir does almost exactly what you are asking for. For a little 
more flexibility, you can use os.path.walk, although it's not quite as 
newb friendly.

-greg