What exactly are you trying to accomplish? If you're just looking for the contents of a directory, it would be much easier to simply call os.listdir(dirinput) as that will return a list of strings that represent the entries in dirinput.
As it stands, 'os.path.walk' will return None in your example, thus the reason f.writelines is failing, the error says something about a required iterable, no? You ought to look at os.walk anyways, as I believe it is the preferred approach when walking a directory hierarchy. It's a generator that will yield a tuple that contains (dirname, subdirectories, filenames). It seems that is what you're looking for? Thanks, Jeff On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Paul Lemelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I Am trying to output the os.path.walk to a file, but the writelines method > complains.... > > Below is the code, any helpful suggestions would be appreciated. > > def visit(arg, dirnames, names): > print dirnames > > > > > dirinput = raw_input("Enter directory to read: ") > > listdir = os.path.walk (dirinput, visit, None) > > f = open("walktxt", "w") > > f.writelines(listdir) > > f.close() > > > > > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list