Greg Perry schreef: > Yeah I figured that. I am trying to find a way to have the program > detect if the user input is a file or directory, which is easy enough > with os.path. However, os.path makes no distinction between a > regular file and a mask, eg filename.txt or *.txt. I guess I'll have > to have a second set of tests to see if the filename contains any > wildcards..?
As Andreas wrote, that won't be necessary on Unix systems, since the shell already expands the wildcards before passing it to your program. On Windows you can use the glob module to expand the wildcards. -- If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants. -- Isaac Newton Roel Schroeven _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
