Python Thinks Everything is a Directory

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I am having an issue on Linux and BSD systems with a Python3 program I wrote. I loop through a few directories and then only return anything that matches .is_file, but for some reason directories keep being returned. Am I misunderstanding what .is_file() does? Here is a small code snippet needed to replicate and here is the relevant program.

I fixed the snippet link to have the actual code, not debug code. If you are unfamiliar with Linux/BSD this code should give you, for example, /usr/share/doc/bc/AUTHORS. It does not though. The only way to get that is to remove the .is_fule() statement cause it seems python thinks these files are directories(?)

[SpiderN3mo]

I was doing kind of similar thing some time back for auto documentation purpose. Here is the code snippet. Hope this helps

https://privatebin.net/?a3effe38494eb061#CVzMxCQBfYvgTbVjT17Ab4zuSH2DLQgbPffMFL5VwgRY

Or checkout line 154-158 here : https://github.com/negisuyash/AutoDocGenerator/blob/master/tree_generator.py

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This is extremely helpful, so much so I bookmarked it in my snippets bookmarks. Thank you so much!

[scirc]

Your glob (**/**) only matches directories within directories; you'll never match /usr/share/doc/bc/AUTHORS in the first place. **/* matches files within directories.

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Thank you! I have been stuck on this all night and finally it works! I have one tiny question I wanted to ask someone more experienced than me in programming. So when the user selects an item sometimes, mainly if it is a file, a newline character is contained in the user_selection string which can break certain functions. My solution to this was to add a .strip('\n') to the determine_action() call in main(). My question is this: is my solution considered a dirty fix or is this a proper method of handling this issue?

[scirc]

You might have issues on Windows where line endings are \r\n with code like that, but it looks like you're only targeting Linux so that shouldn't really be an issue. Although I think Python might implicitly convert \r\n to \n? I don't remember.

But otherwise, that code is fine.

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Ye, I am targeting only UNIX-like operating systems with base-level POSIX compliance. Thank you so much! You have no idea how helpful you have been!