[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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))] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list