All these questions are actually Windows-centric; the answers are
different on Unix.
On Oct 12, 2007, at 13:21 , Andrew Coppin wrote:
I notice that getDirectoryContents appears to return its results in
alphabetical order. Is this behaviour actually guaranteed?
There is no guarantee, however on Windows this is done by invoking
Win32 directory globbing routines which happen to return things in
alpha order. (On Unix it might be alpha order if the underlying
filesystem is a btree, but there are no guarantees at all except
perhaps that '.' and '..' come first.)
Related: Is there a way to get rid of "." and ".." in the results?
(Obviously this causes directory recusion to malfunction.) I can of
course manually filter them out, but it's annoying.
Manual filtering is always required, whether C, Perl, Haskell, etc.
I dunno, maybe python filters them for you or something. Every
language I've ever used makes you deal.
doesDirectoryExist "C:"
doesDirectoryExist "C:\"
both yield False? (This frequently trips up programs that try to
check that a destination folder exists.)
Ask Microsoft. Drive top level handling has been weird since MS-DOS
2.0.
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