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

[Wish Dokta]

Thank you Bob,

While you were correct adding "\\" helped, I also needed to add "\\" to the
dict key so it would also pic up the root directory.

Many thanks,
Glen

On 26 October 2016 at 19:43, Bob Gailer <bgailer at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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