On Apr 2, 2015 9:45 AM, "Saran Ahluwalia" <ahlusar.ahluwa...@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Good Morning:
>
> I understand this error message when I run this code. However, I am
curious
> to know what the most pythonic way is to convert the list to a string? I
> use Python 2.7.
>
> "Traceback (most recent call last):
> before = dict([(f, None) for f in os.listdir(dirlist)])
> TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, list found"
I actually do not understand the error. :p
In particular, I do not understand the subexpression:
os.listdir(dirlist)
Can you explain what you are trying to do there? The listdir function only
consumes single strings, so this looks like a mistake unless dirlist is a
string.
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