Question

I can’t save this output, maybe someone have the solution. I’m listing a directory and some singles files. But when I save the output just catch the directory files, and Not the singles files.
My code:

import os
tosave = open('/tmp/list','ab')
thesource = ["/etc/ssh","/var/log/syslog","/etc/hosts"]
for f in thesource:
    print f
    for top, dirs, files in os.walk(f):
        for nm in files:
            print os.path.join(top, nm)
            try:
                tosave.write(top+nm+'\n')
            finally:
                tosave.close

I saw in the console all files and directory, but in the saved list, just ssh files. Why didn’t save syslog and hosts too?

Thank you !!

Answer 1

In case you missed the () at tosave.close while pasting: (otherwise check harsh’s answer)

The finally is wrong here. The code in finally will be executed after the try block, so after the first execution of tosave.write(top+nm+'\n') the file will be closed because of tosave.close().

Possibly you intended to use except:

            # snip
            try:
                tosave.write(top+nm+'\n')
            except:
                tosave.close()

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Edit: To answer your comment, you want the last line to be the same as the print statement:

                tosave.write(os.path.join(top, nm) + '\n')