Jeremy C B Nicoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
Thanks to people who replied here, and by email.
I've some supplementary questions... my original code was looking at each
leafname in turn via
for leaf in os.listdir(path):
wholefile = os.path.join(path,leaf)
if os.path.isfile(wholefile):
if leaf.startswith("~"):
etc. But I now realise I might alternatively do something like:
leaflist = os.listdir(path)
<then something to sort that list>
for leaf in leaflist:
How would I sort leaflist in a way that mimics the sort order that XP shows
me things under?
Secondly, my code is wasting time looking at subdirectories/files which I
already know I'm not interested in. Is there a way to restrict listdir to,
say, only return info about subdirectories, or only about dirs/files whose
names match a pattern?
Thirdly, once I've go a list of leafnames, somehow, is there a way to ask
Python if a specific leaf-value is in that list, without explicitly looping
through the items in the list?
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