more python crap ..

jackdaw

Hi I have this code

    for data in e.walk():
             name = data.get_filename()
             print type(name)
             if type(name)== type(''):
                print name
                fileobject = open(name, 'w') 
                fileobject.write(data.get_payload(decode = 1))
                fileobject.close()

When i am going through an email and saving the attachment, it saves the attachment by default at
the same folder that the python file is in .. how can i change that ?, how can i specify the full or relative path ?

Sam Vimes

fileobject = open("path/you/want/" + name, 'w')

should do it

jackdaw

Thanks .. I just happened to try that ..

jackdaw

if you are referring to a file in python you can obviously say full path




but if i wanna refer to all the files (or .html files) in the above folder ,,

none of the following work







It gives me an invalid file error ?

slavigo

I'm not fully sure what your after but if your looking to get all html files in a given directory then the following will do the trick.

In the "os" module you can use the "listdir" function for all the contents of a directory.
You can then filter the findings using the "splitext" function in the "os.path" module.

import os

directory_path = "/YOUR/PATH/HERE"

directory_contents = os.listdir(directory_path)

directory_contents_filtered = []

for item in directory_contents:
    if os.path.splitext(item)[1] == '.html':
        item = os.path.join(directory_path,item)
        directory_contents_filtered.append(item)

print directory_contents_filtered

Or short version:

import os

directory_path = "YOUR/PATH/HERE"

directory_contents_filtered = [os.path.join(directory_path,item) for item in os.listdir(directory_path) if os.path.splitext(item)[1] == '.html']

print directory_contents_filtered

Another alternative is to use the "glob" module

import glob

directory_contents_filtered = glob.glob('/YOUR/PATH/HERE/*.html')

print directory_contents_filtered

Hope these help, if I've missed what your after. Sure give a little more detail and I'll see what I can do.

Cantab.

Since when is python "crap"?

slavigo

Cantab. wrote: »

Since when is python "crap"?

I have to admit that that was my initial reaction but then I got distracted answering.

Evil Phil

He wasn't suggesting the python was crap, the only person who seems to suggest that about programming languages is you Cantab. If you want to have a row then go to the pub buy someone a pint and discuss the budget. Stop looking for one in here.