Hi Ben. I hadn't realize that walk was just giving the file name so the
join did the job just great. Many thanks for helping me out with this.
Regards,
David
Ben Cartwright wrote:
> David Pratt wrote:
>
>>OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '.DS_Store'
>
>
>
> Ah. You didn't mention a traceback earlier, so I assumed the code was
> executing but you didn't see the file being removed.
>
>
>
>>>> for f in file_names:
>>>> current_file = os.path.basename(f)
>>>> print 'Current File: %s' % current_file
>>>>
>>>> # Clean mac .DS_Store
>>>> if current_file == '.DS_Store':
>>>> print 'a DS_Store item encountered'
>>>> os.remove(f)
>
>
>
> How are you creating file_names? More importantly, does it contain a
> path (either absolute or relative to the current working directory)?
> If not, you need an os.path.join, e.g.:
>
> import os
> for root_path, dir_names, file_names in os.walk('.'):
> # file_names as generated by os.walk contains file
> # names only (no path)
> for f in file_names:
> if f == '.DS_Store':
> full_path = os.path.join(root_path, f)
> os.remove(full_path)
>
> --Ben
>
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