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Re: Function for examine content of directory

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Date 2012-09-07 07:48 +1000
Subject Re: Function for examine content of directory
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.333.1346968110.27098.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 12:56 AM, Tigerstyle <laddosingh@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.)

If you haven't already, look into the Python 'dict' type; you may find
it easier to work with for this sort of job. You can map an extension
("txt") to its count (4) directly.

ChrisA

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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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