[Tutor] String within a string solution (newbie question)

[Bob Gailer]

On Oct 26, 2016 2:07 PM, "Wish Dokta" <glenuk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am currently writing a basic program to calculate and display the size
of
> folders with a drive/directory. To do this I am storing each directory in
a
> dict as the key, with the value being the sum of the size of all files in
> that directories (but not directories).
>
> For example:
>
> { "C:\\docs" : 10, "C:\\docs123" : 200, "C:\\docs\\code\\snippets" : 5,
> "C:\\docs\\code" : 20, "C:\\docs\\pics" : 200, "C:\\docs\\code\\python" :
> 10  }
>
> Then to return the total size of a directory I am searching for a string
in
> the key:
>
> For example:
>
> for "C:\\docs\\code" in key:

Put "\\" at the end of the search string.
>
> Which works fine and will return "C:\\docs\\code" : 20,
> "C:\\docs\\code\\snippets" : 5, "C:\\docs\\code\\python" : 10 = (35)
>
> However it fails when I try to calculate the size of a directory such as
> "C:\\docs", as it also returns "C:\\docs123".
>
> I'd be very grateful if anyone could offer any advice on how to correct
> this.
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