I am trying to write a function that takes a directory
name and describes the contents of the directory (file
name and size) recursively. Here is what I have
written so far:
import os, os.path
def describeDirectory(directory):
if os.listdir(directory) == []:
print "Empty directory!"
else:
for files in os.listdir(directory):
if os.path.isdir(files):
print files, ' is a directory!'
else:
print files, 'SIZE: ',
os.path.getsize(files)
print 'Current Directory: \n'
describeDirectory('.')
print '\n'
print './testFiles: \n'
describeDirectory('./testFiles')
Here is the result:
Current Directory:
changePeppers.py SIZE: 915
describeDirectory.py SIZE: 481
describeDirectory.pyc SIZE: 514
error_log SIZE: 0
makezeros.py SIZE: 147
makezeros.pyc SIZE: 481
output SIZE: 387
pepper.txt SIZE: 601
testFiles is a directory!
textWrapper.py SIZE: 619
textWrapper.pyc SIZE: 1092
timings.py SIZE: 567
timings.pyc SIZE: 733
./testFiles:
renameFiles.py SIZE:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "describeDirectory.py", line 17, in ?
describeDirectory('./testFiles')
File "describeDirectory.py", line 11, in
describeDirectory
print files, 'SIZE: ', os.path.getsize(files)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/posixpath.py", line 139, in
getsize
return os.stat(filename).st_size
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
'renameFiles.py'
I don't understand the OSError. The file
'renameFiles.py' is in './testFiles' directory. Can
someone clarify this for me?
-Chris
"I'm the last person to pretend that I'm a radio. I'd rather go out and be a
color television set."
-David Bowie
"Who dares wins"
-British military motto
"I generally know what I'm doing."
-Buster Keaton
_______________________________________________
Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
