It was kindof a stupid mistake on my part: I had to put 'import os' at the very beginning, and not only in one of my two function definitions. Thanks anyway, thanks to your link I also found how to change the colour of the console...neat :p ! Tim
Hans Nowak wrote: >tim wrote: > > > >>I want to write a program that looks into a given folder, groups files >>that have a certain part of the filename in common and then copy those >>groups one at a time to another place, using the raw_input prompt to >>continue or break. >> >> >> > > [...] > > >>It works fine when I run this from PythonWin IDE, but after compiling an >>executable from it (py2exe) it exits whatever I type in the 'continue?' >>prompt. >>What am I doing wrong? >> >> > >Maybe this helps: > >http://forums.devshed.com/python-programming-11/eof-error-with-raw-input-from-a-exe-text-color-187633.html > >The solution described here was to compile the program as a console app, >rather than a Windows app. > > > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list