Just want to walk a single directory

[Tim Roberts]

SB <stevebnospam428 at hotmail.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I have a super-simple need to just walk the files in a single directory.
>
>I thought this would do it, but "permanentFilelist" ends up containing 
>all folders in all subdirectories.
>
>Could someone spot the problem? I've scoured some threads using XNews reg 
>expressions involving os.walk, but couldn't extrapolate the answer for my 
>need.
>
>===============================================
>
>thebasedir = "E:\\temp"
>
>permanentFilelist= []
>
>for thepath,thedirnames,thefilenames in os.walk(thebasedir):
>    	if thepath != thebasedir:
>    	    	thedirnames[:] = []
>    	for names in thefilenames:
>    	    	permanentFilelist.append(names)

Um, excuse me for butting in, but couldn't you accomplish the same thing
more simply by using os.listdir and os.path.isfile?  In my brain, os.walk
is the solution to RECURSIVE search needs.
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- Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
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