"MARCUS NG" <marker...@gmail.com> wrote
what is the best way to look into the allFiles directory, and only search
the folder for the 2 files myTest1.0.zip and myTest2.0.zip to extract out
only the version numbers 1.0 and 2.0.
You probably want to use the glob.glob() function to search using
a pattern like myTest*.zip.
Then you can iterate over the list of names returned and examoine the
version number using normal sring functions (or reguar expressions)
so I did think of listing the file names in an array only to realise that
I
wouldn't know which index to query if this script is going to be
automated.
In Python you hardly ever need to query the index to extract items
from a list, instead you use a for loop to look at each item in turn.
for filename in glob.glob(pattern):
version = extractVersion(filename)
# etc...
HTH,
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Alan Gauld
Author of the Learn to Program web site
http://www.alan-g.me.uk/
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