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Chris White
Chris White

Reputation: 11

Appending string input to a list

I'm using Python 2.7 and developing an application in both Ubuntu and Windows. On Windows it works fine---no issues. But on Ubuntu it seems to be doing something odd on this bit:

numberoffiles = raw_input('\nHow many files would you like to compare? ')
numberoffiles = int(numberoffiles)

filelist = []
for i in range(numberoffiles):
    myfilename = raw_input('\nEnter a file path: ')
    filelist.append(myfilename)
print filelist

I'm expecting a list of file names in the format:

['path/to/file1.ext','path/to/file2.ext',...]

But Python is adding double quotes and spaces, so that I get:

["'/path/to/file1.ext' ", "'/path/to/file2.ext' ",...]

If it's a quirk, I can get around it, but I'd like to understand what I'm doing wrong or what exactly is happening here. Any answers would be appreciated.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 146

Answers (2)

rvini
rvini

Reputation: 451

You will need to check your input. If you are giving the input as '/path/filename' then even on windows you will have the double quotes added. Ensure you don't add quotes when you are providing the input.

Upvotes: 1

NPE
NPE

Reputation: 500357

My money is on the extra quotes (and trailing spaces) being part of the input you are providing to the script.

Upvotes: 0

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