Eric Walker wrote:
> New to Python and trying to do some class stuff with a simple task.
> Problem:
> 1) get a list of file names in a directory
> 2) create variables with the same name of each filename pulled from the
> directory.
> 3) Create an object for each and pass into the __init__ method the stringname
> of the file name.
>
> This way I get a collection of objects that are the same name as the file
> name
> and within each instance of the class , a particular attribute will have the
> string name of the object. Hope this isn't too confusing.. example.
What will you do with the names and objects once you have them? A better
approach is probably to keep a dictionary that maps names to objects. If your
object is really just storing the name you might as well just keep a list of
names - the object isn't adding any value. If the object is going to have more
behaviour then use a dict. If you really just want to print the names then you
don't need to store them at all. For example with a dict:
class TPROJ:
# as before
def getNames():
import os
currentDir=os.getcwd()
temp=currentDir + '/TEMP'
os.chdir(temp)
baseList=os.listdir(".")
nameDict = {}
for name in baseList:
nameDict[name] = TPROJ(name)
print name
return nameDict
HTH,
Kent
>
>
> class TPROJ:
> def __init__(self,value):#createMethod auto executes since it has __
> self.BASENAME = value
>
> def display(self):#display method
> print self.BASENAME
>
> def getNames():
> import os
> currentDir=os.getcwd()
> temp=currentDir + '/TEMP'
> os.chdir(temp)
> baseList=os.listdir(".")
> for name in baseList:
> name = TPROJ(name)
> print name
>
> Can anyone see what I am trying to do?
>
> Python Newbie.......
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