Hello,
I am writing code that cycles through files in a directory and for each
file it writes out another file with info in it. It appears that as I am
iterating through the list returned by os.listdir it is being updated
with the new files that are being added to the directory. This occurs
even if I reassign the list to another variable.
Here is my code:
fileList = os.listdir(temporaryDirectory)
for curFile in fileList:
# print the file list to see if it is indeed growing
print FileList
fp = file(os.path.join(temporaryDirectory, "." + curFile), 'w')
# write stuff
fp.close()
Here is the output:
['a', 'b', 'c']
['a', 'b', 'c', '.a']
['a', 'b', 'c', '.a', '.b']
['a', 'b', 'c', '.a', '.b', '.c']
So the list is growing and eventually curFile iterates through the list
of files that were created. I don't want this to happen and it seems
like a bug because the fileList variable should be static, i.e. not
updated after being assigned.
Even if I assign fileList to another variable this still happens. Any ideas?
Chris.
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