On Aug 8, 6:05 pm, Thomas Jollans <tho...@jollans.com> wrote: > On 08/08/2010 10:35 AM, blur959 wrote: > > > > > On Aug 8, 4:15 pm, Chris Rebert <c...@rebertia.com> wrote: > >> On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 1:02 AM, blur959 <blur...@hotmail.com> wrote: > >>> Hi, all, I am writing a program that renames files inside OS > >>> directories the user provides. I am at the early stage of writing it > >>> and I encountered some problems. > > >>> Below is my code. There is an error i received when i run this code. > >>> The error is, WindowsError: [Error 123] The filename, directory name, > >>> or volume label syntax is incorrect. > > >> Well, what directory did you input? Apparently it wasn't a valid or extant > >> one. > > >> Cheers, > >> Chris > >> --http://blog.rebertia.com > > > I input for e.g, "C:" it works, basically, if i input a hard code > > string inside os.listdir it works, but if i stored the string that the > > user keyed inside a variable and run os.listdir with the variable, > > there is that error. But inputing hard code string inside os.listdir > > isn't what I want when I am writing this program. > > You didn't answert the question. What is the actual string you pass to > os.listdir after you got it from the user? You could > print repr(fileroot) > to find out. > > My tentative guess is that maybe Windows doesn't like newlines in file > names (I know UNIX allows them, but they're still usually a bad idea) > and maybe you string ends with a newline.
I do not get what you mean. The string i passed in is stored inside the variable fileroot. In the case I tested, i inputed the string "C: \" inside the raw_input and stored it inside fileroot, I tried printing repr(fileroot) and it gave me "C:\" as the result and when i tried running os.listdir(fileroot) i got the error. The string i passed to os.listdir is the string i keyed inside fileroot under the raw_input? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
