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Reputation: 1

os.walk to find path to file issue (Python 2.7)

I've just starting using python 2.7 and was using the following code to ascertain the path to a file:

import os, fnmatch

#find the location of sunnyexplorer.exe
def find_files(directory, pattern):
    for root, dirs, files in os.walk(directory):
        for basename in files:
            if fnmatch.fnmatch(basename, pattern):
                filename = os.path.join(root, basename)
                yield filename

for filename in find_files('c:\users','*.sx2'): 
    print ('Found Sunny Explorer data in:', filename)

everthing seemed to be working fine until I tried to use the path and noticed an error. The program reports the path as:

c:\users\woody\Documents\SMA\Sunny Explorer

whereas the correct path is:

c:\users\woody\My Documents\SMA\Sunny Explorer

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2112

Answers (1)

Aya
Aya

Reputation: 41940

All versions of MS Windows since Vista store a user's documents in C:\Users\%username%\Documents by default.

However, they also include an NTFS junction point C:\Users\%username%\My Documents which points to the same location for backward compatibility.

The problem is, as I understand it, that you can't work with junction points with standard POSIX calls, so Python will not be able to use them without some Windows-specific extension module.

See also this question on superuser.com.

Upvotes: 2

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