[Scons-users] Glob

[Andrew Featherstone]

On 03/08/2014 06:27 PM, Russel Winder wrote:

> I want to avoid explicitly listing source files. The source directory

> contains all the files so Glob('*.cc') seems reasonably. However 1 of

> the .cc files should not be included, is is the one source file for the

> second executable. I thought I'd be clever and try:

>

> 	Glob('*.cc').remove(Glob('specialSourceFile.cc')[0])

>

> but sadly this fails to work. I printed out the full glob and the

> special glob:

>

> AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'name':

>

> So I guess the question is how to have what appears to be lists of

> SCons.Node.FS.File fit with the list operations?

I've used an idiom similar to the following:
     file_names = map(str, Glob('*.cc'))
     file_names.remove('specialSourceFile.cc')
If you wanted to then end up with a list of file nodes then
     File(file_names)

I don't think any information is lost in this process; it's not caused 
problems for me. I'd agree you'd expect to be able to do something 
similar to your above example, although to be a bit tidier I'd might use 
File('specialSourceFiles.cc'), for the case where you are wanting to 
remove a single file.

Andrew