Good Morning: I understand this error message when I run this code. However, I am curious to know what the most pythonic way is to convert the list to a string? I use Python 2.7.
"Traceback (most recent call last): before = dict([(f, None) for f in os.listdir(dirlist)]) TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, list found" The sample code that I am trying to run is: path = "/Users/Desktop/Projects/" dirlist = os.listdir(path) before = dict([(f, None) for f in os.listdir(dirlist)]) def main(dirlist): while True: time.sleep(10) #time between update check after = dict([(f, None) for f in os.listdir(dirlist)]) added = [f for f in after if not f in before] if added: print('Successfully added new file - ready to validate') if __name__ == "__main__": main() -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list