use songs.extend( asongs ) #append is for single item - where ever it might be.
>>> l1 = range(5) >>> l2 = range(5,10) >>> l1 [0, 1, 2, 3, 4] >>> l2 [5, 6, 7, 8, 9] >>> l1.extend(l2) >>> l1 [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9] >>> good luck. Edwin -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cousin Stanley Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 10:19 PM To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: Random Problems > Well the othe day I was making a program to make a list > of all the songs in certian directorys but I got a problem, > only one of the directorys was added to the list. > .... > Here's some code .... that illustrates yours .... import glob songs = glob.glob( '/path/to/somewhere/*.mp3' ) asongs = glob.glob( 'path/to/somewhere/else/*.mp3' ) songs.append( asongs ) # repeat a few times appending lists from other dirs > all goes well but pick awalys is from the first directory > but songs awalys includes all the files I want it to. songs.append( asongs ) is appending the entire asongs list as a single item to the end of the songs list, not adding each individual song as an entry .... For example .... >>> l1 = range( 0 , 5 ) >>> l2 = range( 5 , 10 ) >>> l3 = range( 11 , 15 ) >>> >>> l1 [0, 1, 2, 3, 4] >>> >>> l2 [5, 6, 7, 8, 9] >>> >>> l3 [11, 12, 13, 14] >>> >>> l1.append( l2 ) >>> >>> l1 [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, [5, 6, 7, 8, 9]] >>> >>> l1.append( l3 ) >>> >>> l1 [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, [5, 6, 7, 8, 9], [11, 12, 13, 14]] So, if you have a lot of entries in the original songs list you're only adding a few entries to it in the form of another list and most likely you didn't run enough random.choice tests to flush out a pick that turned out to be one of the entire asong lists that you added .... You might try something like the following where each tune gets added individually to the song pool .... un-tested .... # ------------------------------------------------------------------- import random import glob base_dir = 'c:/Documents and Settings/Admin/My Documents' list_subdirs = [ 'LimeWire/Saved/*.mp3' , 'Downloads/*/*.mp3' , 'Downloads/*/*/*.mp3' , 'Downloads/*/*/*/*.mp3 ] song_pool = [ ] for this_dir in list_subdirs : list_songs = glob.glob( "'%s/%s'" % ( base_dir , this_dir ) if list_songs : for this_song in list_songs : song_pool.append( this_song ) npicks = 41 print for n in range( npicks ) : this_pick = random.choice( song_pool ) print ' ' , this_pick # ------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Stanley C. Kitching Human Being Phoenix, Arizona -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list The information contained in this message and any attachment may be proprietary, confidential, and privileged or subject to the work product doctrine and thus protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify me immediately by replying to this message and deleting it and all copies and backups thereof. Thank you. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
