[Tutor] Question on Reading a Directory
Jeff Shannon
jeff at ccvcorp.com
Mon Oct 27 21:52:20 EST 2003
P.T. Waugh MA wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm a very new Python programmer, and I want to get all the filenames
> (Windows) into a list. I have been unable to figure out how to do this
> and don't see any functions in the library to do it.
>
> Your help is appreciated.
>
> Also, just out of curiousity.... this is how I copy a file:
>
> splash = select_splash()
> win32file.CopyFile(splash, '..\\dlgsplash.bmp',0)
>
> and I was just wondering, if I need to do it this way (as it seems
> un-portable).
You want the os.listdir() function (to list the entire contents of a
directory), or glob.glob() (to list filenames matching a filespec with
wildcards).
For portable equivalents to most of the win32file functions, look in
the os module and the shutil module.
Jeff Shannon
Technician/Programmer
Credit International
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