os.path.walk usage on WinXP

[Alex Popescu]

Alex Popescu <nospam.themindstorm at gmail.com> wrote in
news:Xns997991CDF7710themindstorm at 80.91.229.5: 

> Hi all!
> 
> I am trying to use the os.path.walk function, but I am getting a weird
> error:
> 
> def _walk(dir_name):
>   def selector(arg, dirname, fnames):
>     print "selector"
> 
>   os.path.walk(dir_name, selector, None)
> 
> File "C:\zengarden\python\python25\lib\ntpath.py", line 325, in walk
>    names = os.listdir(top)
> TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, list found
> 
> After searching through the documentation the only thing that I've
> found is the comment on os.listdir(path):
> 
> [quote]
> Changed in version 2.3: On Windows NT/2k/XP and Unix, if path is a
> Unicode object, the result will be a list of Unicode objects.
> [/quote]
> 
> Unfortunately, I have no idea what to do next. 
> 
> TIA,
> ./alex
> --
> .w( the_mindstorm )p.
> 

This seems to work in Python console, so I'm more puzzled now :-(.

bests,
./alex
--
.w( the_mindstorm )p.