Problem in Python . . . (It's either parsing or directories.)

Splinter of Chaos · 2006-07-03T15:09:22

I hava a code so simple, it just has to work . . . yet some how it doesn't. import os saves = os.listdir(dir()) items = 0 for items in saves: if (items.endswith('.py')) or (items.endswith('.txt')): saves.remove(items) else: pass print saves The goal is just to be able to put this into any program and be able to see every save file in the directory so the user can easilly load his/her file. I do this by excluding every .py and .txt (because I'm only looking for .data files), but for some reason it won't remove the strings I don't want and leaves in EVERY STRING. PS: I know that it would be simpler yet just to write it so that rather than removing the majority files I don't want, I create a new variable and put it the minorities I do want (err, it did work . . .), but I also want to know why this failled.

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Started by Splinter of Chaos July 02, 2006 03:25 PM

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July 02, 2006 07:38 PM

Somehow I must've gotten dir() confused with something that prints out the files in the directory the program was run from. Can't remember how I coocked that up, but I would like to note that it DID work up until the point when I put it in my larger program. So maybe I had something else . . . but thanks for noting that, I'll look into alternatives now.

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I'm now using os.listdir(os.getcwd()) and it works unbelievably well. Thanks for all the help, even if it turned out to be minutly arbitrary. Sorry, but thanks a lot.

[Edited by - Splinter of Chaos on July 2, 2006 7:38:04 PM]

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