[Tutor] Windows file structure

[Liam Clarke]

Heh, I'm going to update my standard disclaimer to -


This is a quick and dirty way to do it, there's probably a simpler,
cleaner way to do it, which will be posted shortly by someone more
knowledgeable.

For secondslot in names[1:] means secondslot is a slice of names,
doesn't it? I get confused about slices sometimes.

On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 21:44:47 -0400, Kent Johnson
<kent_johnson at skillsoft.com> wrote:
> A few notes:
> 
> - Instead of
> for slot in range(len(folderlist)):
>          # do something with folderlist[slot]
> 
> it is better to write
> for names in folderlist:
>          # do something with names
> 
> - os.makedirs() will make all the directories needed to reach a path, so
> you don't have to make the intermediate paths.
> 
> - A more portable way to join paths is with os.path.join(); this will work
> on a wider variety of platforms that code that assumes that / is the separator.
> 
> So you could write your loop as
> for names in folderlist:
>             for secondslot in names[1:]:
>                   os.makedirs(os.path.join('..', names[0], secondslot))
> 
> Kent
> 
> 
> 
> At 01:46 PM 10/31/2004 +1300, Liam Clarke wrote:
> >folderlist=[["English", "data", "temporary", "main", "archive"],
> >                ["Español", "datos", "temporal", "principal", "archivo"],
> >                ["Italiano", "dati", "provvisorio", "principale", "archivio"]]
> >
> >And then a wee loop -
> >
> >for slot in range(len(folderlist)):
> >            os.mkdir("../%s" % folderlist[slot][0])
> >            for secondslot in range(1,len(folderlist[slot])):
> >                  os.mkdir("../%s/%s" % (folderlist[slot][0],
> >folderlist[slot][secondslot]))
> 
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