yawgmoth7 wrote: > Hello, I am currently writing a script that requires a few different > files to be opened, and examined. What I need to be able to do is use > something like: > > filelist = os.system("ls") > <Some way to open the file list and read each file one by one here >> > > I cannot think of a way to do this, I could put them in a list of > something of the sort. But that still does not solve the problem of > opening them one by one. > > Thanks for all the advice and help. > -- > gurusnetwork.org > Gurus'Network - Are you a guru?
os.walk is your friend. Its has wonderful functionality. The documentation is in the subsection 'Files and Directories' of the os module, and there are a couple of examples. Global Module index --> os --> 'Files and Directories' (Section 6.1.4) -->Bottom of page -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list