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> I have a super-simple need to just walk the files in a single directory.
>
> I thought this would do it, but "permanentFilelist" ends up containing
> all folders in all subdirectories.
All folders everywhere, or all file (not directory) names in the top
two levels? It looks like the latter to me.
> Could someone spot the problem? I've scoured some threads using XNews reg
> expressions involving os.walk, but couldn't extrapolate the answer for my
> need.
>
> ===============================================
>
> thebasedir = "E:\\temp"
>
> permanentFilelist= []
>
> for thepath,thedirnames,thefilenames in os.walk(thebasedir):
>
> if thepath != thebasedir:
You wanted == instead of != there. Think about it ;-)
> thedirnames[:] = []
>
> for names in thefilenames:
> permanentFilelist.append(names)
A simpler way (assuming I understand what you're after) is:
thebasedir = "C:\\tmpold"
for dummy, dummy, permanentFilelist in os.walk(thebasedir):
break
or the possibly more cryptic equivalent:
thebasedir = "C:\\tmpold"
permanentFilelist = os.walk(thebasedir).next()[-1]
or the wordier but transparent:
thebasedir = "C:\\tmpold"
permanentFilelist = [fn for fn in os.listdir(thebasedir)
if os.path.isfile(os.path.join(thebasedir, fn))]
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