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cieux-gris on 09/03/08


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Contains archive

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Given a directory path, return true if the directory contains at least one type of archive file, as specified in the list of archive extensions. Otherwise, return false. This version uses lower() to help comparison in situations where capitalization may be different.

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  1. def containsArchive (dirPath):
  2.     contents=os.listdir(dirPath)
  3.     archiveExts=['.zip','.rar','.gz','.bz2','.tar','.r01','.r001']
  4.     archiveList=[item for item in contents if os.path.splitext(item)[-1].lower() in archiveExts]
  5.     return not archiveList==list()

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