Gary Wessle wrote: > I am looping through a directory and appending all the files in one > huge file, the codes below should give the same end results but are > not, I don't understand why the first code is not doing it. > > combined = open(outputFile, 'wb') > for name in flist: > if os.path.isdir(file): continue > infile = open(os.path.join(file), 'rb')
this shouldn't work. 'file' is a type object, not a filename. did you rebind 'file' without showing us? or should those 'file's be 'name's instead? in either case, calling os.path.join with one argument is pointless. > # CODE 1 this does not work > tx = infile.read(1000) > if tx == "": break > combined.write(tx) > infile.close() hint: where will break take you? therein lies your answer. -- Edward Elliott UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall) complangpython at eddeye dot net -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
