On Jun 5, 1:41 pm, Jeff Nyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Greetings all.
>
> The subject line of this thread is probably one of the worst ever. I
> was trying to encapsulate what I am doing. Based on my new-found
> knowledge from another thread, I'm able to get a list of directories
> and they come to me in the form of a list. Here is an example:
>
> from glob import glob
> DC_List = glob('\\\\vcdcflx006\\Flex\\Sites\\*\\')
> DC_List = ['Baltimore', 'Birmingham', 'Cincinnati', 'Cleveland',
> LosAngeles']
>NEW_LIST = [(entry, '') for entry in DC_List] Does this get you what you want? Michael Foord http://www.ironpythoninaction.com > (Each element in the DC_List is actually a full directory path, but I > shortened that in the interest of clarity.) > > The problem is that I need to pass this list to a list control in a > wxWidgets application. In order to do that, I need to pass in a list > like this: > > [ ('Baltimore', ''), ('Birmingham', ''), ('Cincinnati', ''), > ('Cleveland', ''), ('LosAngeles', '') ] > > In other words, each element in the list is a tuple that has an empty > second string. The problem I'm having is in converting my list above > to be of this type. I can't do append because that (logically) puts > everything at the end. I did try this: > > for count in range(0, len(DC_List)): > DC_List.insert(count, '') > > Here I was thinking I could insert a '' into the right place after > each entry in the list. That doesn't quite work. Does anyone have an > idea of a good approach here? (I did search on tuples and lists and > while I found a lot of information about both, I couldn't find a > solution that did what I'm discussing above.) > > - Jeff -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
