On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 1:05 AM, lameck kassana <chela...@gmail.com> wrote: > hey i want to count number of files in remote computer > > example of my code is > > import glob > import os > import time > from datetime import date > today=date.today() > dir_count, file_count=0, 0 > > for files in glob.glob('\\192.168.0.45\files\*.txt'):
Remember that *backslash is the escape character* in Python, so you need to double-up your backslashes in the string literal (or just use forward slashes instead, Windows doesn't seem to care for Python in most cases). Right now, the path really only starts with 1 backslash and it has a formfeed character in it (\f), so it's obviously invalid; thus, your problem. So you want: #looks ugly, doesn't it? for files in glob.glob('\\\\192.168.0.45\\files\\*.txt'): Or: #will probably but not assuredly work for files in glob.glob('//192.168.0.45/files/*.txt'): Cheers, Chris -- Follow the path of the Iguana... http://rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list