Jeff, Thanks for your reply. I would like to like the absolute path of a directory. I thought that os.listdir just returns the nam itself in a data list.
I noticed that none was being return in my example. Do you think that I have the arguments misplaced? Thanks, Paul --- On Wed, 6/4/08, Jeff McNeil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Jeff McNeil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Unable to write output from os.path.walk to a file. > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: python-list@python.org > Date: Wednesday, June 4, 2008, 3:26 PM > 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