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Re: Reading files in from the proper directory

From Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de>
Subject Re: Reading files in from the proper directory
Date 2012-02-07 21:16 +0100
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SMac2347@comcast.net wrote:

> xls_files   = glob.glob(in_dir + "*.xls")

Try changing that to

pattern = os.path.join(in_dir, "*.xls")
xls_files = glob.glob(pattern) 

os.path.join() inserts a (back)slash between directory and filename if 
necessary.

> merge_xls(in_dir="C:\Documents and Settings\smacdon\Desktop\09 Aggregate JWS")

If you paste the directory name literal into the interactive interpreter 
you'll be surprised:

>>> "C:\Documents and Settings\smacdon\Desktop\09 Aggregate JWS"
'C:\\Documents and Settings\\smacdon\\Desktop\x009 Aggregate JWS'

"\09" is intrpreted as chr(9). Use a raw string to prevent Python from 
interpreting a backslash as the start of an escape sequence

>>> r"C:\Documents and Settings\smacdon\Desktop\09 Aggregate JWS"
'C:\\Documents and Settings\\smacdon\\Desktop\\09 Aggregate JWS'

or use forward slashes as directory separators.

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Reading files in from the proper directory SMac2347@comcast.net - 2012-02-07 10:14 -0800
  Re: Reading files in from the proper directory Dave Angel <d@davea.name> - 2012-02-07 13:40 -0500
    Re: Reading files in from the proper directory SMac2347@comcast.net - 2012-02-07 11:03 -0800
  Re: Reading files in from the proper directory Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2012-02-07 19:59 +0100
    Re: Reading files in from the proper directory SMac2347@comcast.net - 2012-02-07 11:13 -0800
      Re: Reading files in from the proper directory John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2012-02-07 20:00 +0000
      Re: Reading files in from the proper directory Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2012-02-07 21:16 +0100
        Re: Reading files in from the proper directory SMac2347@comcast.net - 2012-02-09 12:32 -0800
          Re: Reading files in from the proper directory Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2012-02-09 22:07 +0100
          Re: Reading files in from the proper directory Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2012-02-09 23:05 -0500
        Re: Reading files in from the proper directory SMac2347@comcast.net - 2012-02-09 12:36 -0800
  Re: Reading files in from the proper directory John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2012-02-07 19:46 +0000

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