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jaysunn
jaysunn

Reputation: 87

Python os.path.join - INFO - 'list' object has no attribute 'endswith error

I am trying to create a function that would listdir into a list, then iterate over the list and remove the last 3 elements. I have used this code before but I am getting an odd error, please see the log below. I have research the error that I am catching with AttributeError and my results have been null. Can anyone please shed some light on what I may be overlooking? Please let me know if you need more information. Thank you.

[root@dbadmin bin]# python --version
Python 2.6.6

[root@dbadmin bin]# uname -a
Linux dbadmin 2.6.32-504.8.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Jan 28 21:11:36 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

FUNCTION:
def clean_up():
dir_list = os.listdir('/root/repo_creation/repos')
srtd_lst = sorted(dir_list)
dirs_to_remove  = srtd_lst[:-3]
for dirs in dirs_to_remove:
    try:
        logger.info("Removing dir: %s" % dirs)
        print os.path.join(dir_list, dirs)
    except AttributeError as e:
        logger.info(e)

[root@dbadmin bin]# ls -l /root/repo_creation/repos/
total 24
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun  4 23:50 2016-03
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun  4 23:50 2016-04
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun  4 23:50 2016-05
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun  4 23:50 2016-06
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun  4 23:50 2016-07
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun  4 23:50 2016-08

LOG_OUTPUT:
[root@dbadmin bin]# python repo_creator.py
[root@dbadmin bin]# cat ../log/std_out.2016-06-07.log
2016-06-07 09:12:12,152 - __main__ - INFO - Removing dir: 2016-03
2016-06-07 09:12:12,152 - __main__ - INFO - 'list' object has no attribute 'endswith'
2016-06-07 09:12:12,152 - __main__ - INFO - Removing dir: 2016-04
2016-06-07 09:12:12,152 - __main__ - INFO - 'list' object has no attribute 'endswith'
2016-06-07 09:12:12,152 - __main__ - INFO - Removing dir: 2016-05
2016-06-07 09:12:12,153 - __main__ - INFO - 'list' object has no attribute 'endswith'

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2649

Answers (1)

Kevin
Kevin

Reputation: 76254

print os.path.join(dir_list, dirs)

dir_list is a list, but os.path.join's arguments need to be individual strings.

It's not clear to me what you're trying to do here. If you just want to display dirs, you don't need join at all. Just print it by itself.

print dirs

edit: if you want dirs to be prefixed with the relative path you used in listdir, join it with that rather than the result of listdir.

root_directory = '/root/repo_creation/repos'
dir_list = os.listdir(root_directory)

#... Later in the code...

print os.path.join(root_directory, dirs)

Upvotes: 1

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