Script to count files in a folder

umut.tabak at student.kuleuven.be umut.tabak at student.kuleuven.be
Mon Oct 23 09:26:02 EDT 2006



On Oct 23, 3:11 pm, "Fredrik Lundh" <fred... at pythonware.com> wrote:
> umut.ta... at student.kuleuven.be wrote:
> > A batch file creates this file and deletes that file in the same loop.
> > This file is intended to start the reading of an input file. After it
> > is read batch file deletes this file automatically and on the next loop
> > it  will be written and deleted again. With this script I have to count
> > the occurences of the file on this specific folder.what does "count" mean here?
>
> do you want to check if the file is there, or how many times a file with
> that name has been created ?

Yes I would like to check how many times that specific file is created.
so count is the number of times of creation.

>
> the former is easy (just use the os.path.isfile() function), the latter is not
> really possible.
> 
> </F>




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