Question

I kind of wrote this piece of code:

import csv
import os
fileobj = csv.reader(open('c:\\paths1.csv', 'rb'), delimiter=' ', quotechar='|')
for row in fileobj:
    x=0 

    for x in fileobj:
        filesize= os.path.getsize(x)

    print (filesize);

However I’m still receiving this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\workspace\test1py\Acol.py", line 9, in <module>
    filesize= os.path.getsize(x)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\genericpath.py", line 49, in getsize
    return os.stat(filename).st_size
TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, list found

I guess it’s cos’ fileobj contains a list of path…

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Answer 1

You want

for x in row: # NOT   in fileobj
    filesize = os.path.getsize(x)

By the way, the line x = 0 has no effect but to confuse the unsuspecting reader. You should remove it.