[Pythonmac-SIG] Strange ?

[Francois Granger]

I did a simple script to work info inside some files. It gave me 
strange results, so I have reduced it to the bare script needed to 
show the behaviour.
Config: MacOS 9.1, Python 2.2

Make this script an applet and drop the filenames showed in the list.
All filenames are different. I expect it to return the full filename 
plus a space unless the filename is longer than 30 char. In this 
case, it should return the first 30 char plus a space. But it return 
only the first word of the name plus a space.

I did test with
files = os.listdir(os.getcwd())
and I did not get the same behaviour.

# python

import sys, re, os

print sys.argv[1:]
files = sys.argv[1:]
for file in files:
     out = file[:30] + ' '
     print out

output of the script below.
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['HD:Dev:stats usenet:Classement hebdo020118', 'HD:Dev:stats 
usenet:Classement hebdo020125', 'HD:Dev:stats usenet:Classement 
hebdo020201', 'HD:Dev:stats usenet:Classement mensuel 0201', 
'HD:Dev:stats usenet:Classement hebdo020111']
HD:Dev:stats usenet:Classement
HD:Dev:stats usenet:Classement
HD:Dev:stats usenet:Classement
HD:Dev:stats usenet:Classement
HD:Dev:stats usenet:Classement
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