Zentrader wrote:
> On Aug 14, 1:52 pm, Jeremy C B Nicoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> What order does info get returned in by os.listdir() ?
>>
>> I'm just starting to write python code, on an Win XP Pro machine. I've got
>> various directories which, when I look at them in Win XP, sorted by name, I
>> see in order, eg:
>>
>> ~prefixed file .txt
>> A.txt
>> B.txt
>> ...
>> Z.txt
>>
>> ie, XP seems to think that files with a "~" as their first character are
>> sorted ahead of A.
>>
>> When I use os.listdir() to return that list of leaf values, I do seem to get
>> them in alphabetical order, A before B before C etc, but the ~-prefixed ones
>> are returned after the Z-prefixed files rather than before the A-ones.
>>
>> I was wondering why...
>>
>> --
>> Jeremy C B Nicoll - my opinions are my own.
>
> I think that os.listdir() returns file names in chronological order,
> that is in the order they were created on disk. If there is any
> sorting done it will be in ASCII order. All data is stored as a
> number so it is sorted that way. ord("~")= 126, and ord("Z")=90 so it
> makes sense that "~" is after "Z".
>
You can think what you like, but reading the documentation is usually a
more reliable way to resolve uncertainties, and it says:
"""The list is in arbitrary order."""
regards
Steve
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