> It's not what you are looking for here, but os.stat gives you access to
> lots of information about files. In Linux and Windows, though, the
> 'type' of a file is incorporated into its filename through an extension.
No, only in windows. Under linux/unix in general there might exist the
file-com
raj wrote:
> How can I find ... if it's a file,
> whether it is an image file or not?
Assuming you are running on an operating system that uses file
extensions to indicate a file is an image (like Windows or Linux),
something like this will work:
import os.path
def isImage(filename):
retu
Thanx adam 'n' fuzzyman! got that 'isdir'. But how the other thing?
Can't find anything suitable. I'll be happy on getting atleast
something like the file command in Unix
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For checking the contents of a directory :
for entry in os.listdir(this_dir):
if os.path.isdir(os.path.join(this_dir, entry));
continue
You could use splitext to get the extension of a the filename, and
*assume* that '.jpg', '.png', '.ico' and friends are images.
I'm sure PIL will h
Check out the os.path (http://docs.python.org/lib/module-os.path.html)
module. It has the functions you are looking for.
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i'm surely a newbie in python and on the go, I just tried to write a
small app to change the gnome desktop background daily. It's working
now making use of listdir() to find the contents of each dir I
encounter. But I'm sure that my code won't go that smooth forever.
How can I find if the content
