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Re: Function for examine content of directory

Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Date 2012-09-07 07:23 -0700
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Subject Re: Function for examine content of directory
From Tigerstyle <laddosingh@gmail.com>

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kl. 16:56:29 UTC+2 torsdag 6. september 2012 skrev Tigerstyle følgende:
> Hi guys,
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> 
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> I'm trying to write a module containing a function to examine the contents of the current working directory and print out a count of how many files have each extension (".txt", ".doc", etc.)
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>  
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> This is the code so far:
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> --
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> import os
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> path = "v:\\workspace\\Python2_Homework03\\src\\"
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> dirs = os.listdir( path )
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> filenames = {"this.txt", "that.txt", "the_other.txt","this.doc","that.doc","this.pdf","first.txt","that.pdf"}
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> extensions = []
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> for filename in filenames:
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>     f = open(filename, "w")
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>     f.write("Some text\n")
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>     f.close()
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>     name , ext = os.path.splitext(f.name)
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>     extensions.append(ext)
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> 
> 
> # This would print all the files and directories
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> for file in dirs:
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>     print(file)
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> 
> 
> for ext in extensions:
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>     print("Count for %s: " %ext, extensions.count(ext))
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>     
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> --
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> 
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> When I'm trying to get the module to print how many files each extension has, it prints the count of each ext multiple times for each extension type. Like this:
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> this.pdf
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> the_other.txt
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> this.doc
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> that.txt
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> this.txt
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> that.pdf
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> first.txt
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> that.doc
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> Count for .pdf:  2
> 
> Count for .txt:  4
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> Count for .doc:  2
> 
> Count for .txt:  4
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> Count for .txt:  4
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> Count for .pdf:  2
> 
> Count for .txt:  4
> 
> Count for .doc:  2
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> 
> 
> Any help is appreciated.
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> 
> 
> T

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Function for examine content of directory Tigerstyle <laddosingh@gmail.com> - 2012-09-06 07:56 -0700
  Re: Function for examine content of directory Ian Foote <ian@feete.org> - 2012-09-06 16:06 +0100
  Re: Function for examine content of directory MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2012-09-06 16:20 +0100
    Re: Function for examine content of directory Tigerstyle <laddosingh@gmail.com> - 2012-09-06 13:26 -0700
    Re: Function for examine content of directory Tigerstyle <laddosingh@gmail.com> - 2012-09-06 13:26 -0700
  Re: Function for examine content of directory Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2012-09-06 17:26 -0400
  Re: Function for examine content of directory Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-09-07 07:48 +1000
  Re: Function for examine content of directory Tigerstyle <laddosingh@gmail.com> - 2012-09-07 07:23 -0700
  Re: Function for examine content of directory Tigerstyle <laddosingh@gmail.com> - 2012-09-07 07:28 -0700
    Re: Function for examine content of directory Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2012-09-07 15:21 -0400

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