C:\temp>dir

 Volume in drive C has no label
 Volume Serial Number is 0F4A-1901
 Directory of C:\temp

.              <DIR>        08-26-00  5:01p .
..             <DIR>        08-26-00  5:01p ..
ABOUT-~1 HTM         2,431  08-26-00  5:16p about-pp.html
PYTHON~1 GZ        212,152  08-26-00  5:33p python1.5.tar.gz
ABOUT-~2 HTM            43  08-26-00  5:36p about-pp2e.html
ABOUT-~3 HTM            47  08-26-00  5:36p about-ppr2e.html
NEWDIR         <DIR>        09-04-00  2:13p newdir
         4 file(s)        214,673 bytes
         3 dir(s)        5,799.79 MB free



C:\temp>dir /B
about-pp.html
python1.5.tar.gz
about-pp2e.html
about-ppr2e.html
newdir

C:\temp>ls
about-pp.html     about-ppr2e.html  python1.5.tar.gz
about-pp2e.html   newdir

C:\temp>ls newdir
temp1  temp2  temp3



>>> import os
>>> os.popen('dir').read()[:100]
'\012 Volume in drive C has no label\012 Volume Serial Number is 0F4A-1901\012 D
irectory of C:\\temp\012\012.        '
>>>
>>>
>>> os.popen('dir /B').readlines()
['about-pp.html\012', 'python1.5.tar.gz\012', 'about-pp2e.html\012', 'about-ppr2
e.html\012', 'newdir\012']


>>> for line in os.popen('dir /B').readlines():
...     print line[:-1]
...
about-pp.html
python1.5.tar.gz
about-pp2e.html
about-ppr2e.html
newdir


>>> for line in os.popen('dir *.html /B').readlines(): print line,
...
about-pp.html
about-pp2e.html
about-ppr2e.html


>>> os.popen('ls *.html').readlines()
['about-pp.html\012', 'about-pp2e.html\012', 'about-ppr2e.html\012']

>>> files = os.popen('ls *.html').readlines()
>>> for file in files: print file,
...
about-pp.html
about-pp2e.html
about-ppr2e.html


>>> import glob
>>> glob.glob('*.html')
['about-pp.html', 'about-pp2e.html', 'about-ppr2e.html']

>>> glob.glob('*')
['about-pp.html', 'python1.5.tar.gz', 'about-pp2e.html', 'about-ppr2e.html', 'ne
wdir']

>>> os.listdir('.')
['about-pp.html', 'python1.5.tar.gz', 'about-pp2e.html', 'about-ppr2e.html', 'ne
wdir']
>>> os.listdir(os.curdir)
['about-pp.html', 'python1.5.tar.gz', 'about-pp2e.html', 'about-ppr2e.html', 'ne
wdir']


>>> os.popen('ls newdir').readlines()
['temp1\012', 'temp2\012', 'temp3\012']
>>> os.popen('dir newdir /B').readlines()
['temp1\012', 'temp2\012', 'temp3\012']
>>> glob.glob('newdir/*')
['newdir\\temp1', 'newdir\\temp2', 'newdir\\temp3']
>>> os.listdir('newdir')
['temp1', 'temp2', 'temp3']


>>> os.popen('ls C:\PP2ndEd').readlines()
['README.txt\012', 'cdrom\012', 'chapters\012', 'etc\012', 'examples\012', 'exam
ples.tar.gz\012', 'figures\012', 'shots\012']
>>>
>>> glob.glob('C:\PP2ndEd\*')
['C:\\PP2ndEd\\examples.tar.gz', 'C:\\PP2ndEd\\README.txt', 'C:\\PP2ndEd\\shots'
, 'C:\\PP2ndEd\\figures', 'C:\\PP2ndEd\\examples', 'C:\\PP2ndEd\\etc', 'C:\\PP2n
dEd\\chapters', 'C:\\PP2ndEd\\cdrom']
>>>
>>> os.listdir('C:\PP2ndEd')
['examples.tar.gz', 'README.txt', 'shots', 'figures', 'examples', 'etc', 'chapte
rs', 'cdrom']


>>> for file in glob.glob('C:\PP2ndEd\*'):
...     print os.path.split(file)
...
('C:\\PP2ndEd', 'examples.tar.gz')
('C:\\PP2ndEd', 'README.txt')
('C:\\PP2ndEd', 'shots')
('C:\\PP2ndEd', 'figures')
('C:\\PP2ndEd', 'examples')
('C:\\PP2ndEd', 'etc')
('C:\\PP2ndEd', 'chapters')
('C:\\PP2ndEd', 'cdrom')
>>>
>>> for file in os.listdir('C:\PP2ndEd'):
...     print os.path.join('C:\PP2ndEd', file)
...
C:\PP2ndEd\examples.tar.gz
C:\PP2ndEd\README.txt
C:\PP2ndEd\shots
C:\PP2ndEd\figures
C:\PP2ndEd\examples
C:\PP2ndEd\etc
C:\PP2ndEd\chapters
C:\PP2ndEd\cdrom