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

[Bob Gailer]

BubOn Oct 27, 2016 8:38 AM, "Wish Dokta" <glenuk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello Alan,
>
> Thank you for the reply.
>
> I have actually fixed that bug. If you are bored or for some other reason
> would like to assist a newbro my code is here:
>
> main: http://pastebin.com/LgbeywiB
> functions: http://pastebin.com/vU7zzJKe

Code following first while needs to be indented.
Too many unnecessary blank lines.
Since a drive is a letter ask user to enter a letter rather than going
through the exercise of translating letters to numbers and back.
Minimize the number of statements following try.
To print a message surrounded by blank lines consider:
print("\nMessage\n") or
print("""
Message
""")
>
> I'd be very grateful for any feedback on improvements to the code or how I
> am coding in general. I'd be particularly interested in a better data
> structure to use to store the directories and their sizes.
>
> Many thanks,
> Glen
>
> On 26 October 2016 at 19:34, Alan Gauld via Tutor <tutor at python.org>
wrote:
>
> > On 26/10/16 19:06, Wish Dokta wrote:
> >
> > > 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:
> > >
> > > for "C:\\docs\\code" in key:
> > >
> > > 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.
> >
> > We can't guess what your code looks like, you need to show us.
> > Post the code and we can maybe help.
> >
> > --
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