How to acess files in other directory

Asked Feb 22 '14 at 13:20

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My path is /cygdrive/c/Users/MyAccount/MyBox/myDev/trunk

My python scripts are located in /cygdrive/c/Users/MyAccount/MyBox/myScript/delivery

I want to get list of all files in python script folder as follows:

script_dir = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
print('script_dir %s' % script_dir)
for root, dirs, files in os.walk(script_dir):
    for file_name in files:
        print(file_name)

I can't get it work because my script_dir prints :

script_dir /cygdrive/c/Users/MyAccount/MyBox/myDev/trunk/myScript/delivery

How can I make it works?

Thanks

edited Feb 22 '14 at 13:25

Wasim

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asked Feb 22 '14 at 13:20

user2961311

How about using os.path? – Madhusoodan Feb 22 '14 at 13:25
tried but doesn't get the correct path. – user2961311 Feb 22 '14 at 13:30
can you try glob module like glob.glob('/*') – rogue-one Feb 22 '14 at 13:33
@mig-25 foxbat : the problem is to have the path of the – user2961311 Feb 22 '14 at 13:44
Something is wrong with your `abspath`, but can't be reproduced on my machine. What's the output if you `print os.path.abspath(__file__)`? – zhangxaochen Feb 22 '14 at 13:44
@zhangxaochen : the result is /cygdrive/c/Users/MyAccount/MyBox/myScript/delivery/deliverymachine.py – user2961311 Feb 22 '14 at 13:46
The problem is that the script can't translate **/cygdrive/c/Users/MyAccount/MyBox/myDev/trunk/../../myScript/delivery** – user2961311 Feb 22 '14 at 13:51
@user2961311 then there must be no `myDev/trunk/` parts in `script_dir` as you mentioned in your question. Are you sure about that? – zhangxaochen Feb 22 '14 at 13:51
os.path.join should help. Check http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9856683/using-pythons-os-path-how-do-i-go-up-one-directory – Madhusoodan Feb 22 '14 at 13:52
@zhangxaochen i am sure ! – user2961311 Feb 22 '14 at 13:55
@zhangxaochen I wrote a wrong result. os.path.abspath(__file__) gives me /cygdrive/c/Users/MyAccount/MyBox/myDev/trunk/myScript/delivery/deliverymachine.py the result is wrong, can't understand why ! – user2961311 Feb 22 '14 at 14:10
@user2961311 sorry cannot reproduce such an error. plz do not show the outputs/errors **manually**, just **copy and paste** them!! – zhangxaochen Feb 22 '14 at 14:23
I'm guessing now you are using `os.path.abspath(file)`, not `__file__`, where `file` is a hardcoded variable of string in your script. cannot come up with any other assumption ;/ – zhangxaochen Feb 22 '14 at 14:27
I put the instructions in a standalone file and there is no problem. When i use it in my script, I get the wrong path. I don't get why ! thanks for your help, i'll try another method – user2961311 Feb 22 '14 at 15:32

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