[Tutor] slide show won't display the images in right order

Alan Gauld alan.gauld at freenet.co.uk
Wed Oct 12 19:02:42 CEST 2005


> When I use:
> files = os.listdir(<theimagesdirectory>)

Have you tried printing 'files'?
Are they in order there?

> it doesn't display the images in the right order! It will skip from
> ga050123.gif and go to ga050120.gif!

I suspect listdir doesn't use name order.
You probably need to do a sort() on the files list.

hth,

Alan G
Author of the learn to program web tutor
http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld





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