[Tutor] String within a string solution (newbie question)

2016-10-26 Thread Wish Dokta
Hello, I am currently writing a basic program to calculate and display the size of folders with a drive/directory. To do this I am storing each directory in a dict as the key, with the value being the sum of the size of all files in that directories (but not directories). For example: { "C:\\doc

Re: [Tutor] String within a string solution (newbie question)

2016-10-27 Thread Wish Dokta
o the code or how I am coding in general. I'd be particularly interested in a better data structure to use to store the directories and their sizes. Many thanks, Glen On 26 October 2016 at 19:34, Alan Gauld via Tutor wrote: > On 26/10/16 19:06, Wish Dokta wrote: > > > folders

Re: [Tutor] String within a string solution (newbie question)

2016-10-27 Thread Wish Dokta
Thank you Bob, While you were correct adding "\\" helped, I also needed to add "\\" to the dict key so it would also pic up the root directory. Many thanks, Glen On 26 October 2016 at 19:43, Bob Gailer wrote: > On Oct 26, 2016 2:07 PM, "Wish Dokta" w