String formatting in a loop

Question

I've got a directory full of JPG photographs. I want to take the file names of those photographs and end up with the following being printed:

<description>Test. <![CDATA[<img src='.
/files/fantaWP.jpg]>]]></description>

The file name is a variable. I've tried my very best below and i'm nearly there, but I end up with the following output:

<description>Test. <![CDATA[<img src='.
/files/['fantaWP.jpg', 'icon', 'p1.JPG', 'p2.JPG', 'p3.jpg', 'p4.jpg']>]]></description>

Here is my code:

photofileName = []

path='C:\Users\Simon\Desktop\Dir\pics' 

dirList=os.listdir(path)
for fname in dirList:
    photofileName.append(fname)

print photofileName


photoVar = [x for x in photofileName]

itemsInListOne = 3

iterations = itemsInListOne

num = 0

while num < iterations:
        num = num+1
        print ("\<description>Test. <![CDATA[<img src='./files/{}'>]]></description>\n".format(photoVar))

Thank you in advance.

msvalkon · Accepted Answer · 2014-02-28 10:31:59Z

The following should be enough if I understand you correctly.

for fname in os.listdir(path):
    print("\<description>Test. <![CDATA[<img src='./files/{}'>]]>=</description>\n".format(fname))

Example:

>>> path = "/home/msvalkon/Pictures/Sample Album"
>>> for fname in os.listdir(path):
...     print("\<description>Test. <![CDATA[<img src='./files/{}'>]]>=</description>\n".format(fname))
...     
... 
\<description>Test. <![CDATA[<img src='./files/Costa Rican Frog.jpg'>]]>=</description>

\<description>Test. <![CDATA[<img src='./files/Pensive Parakeet.jpg'>]]>=</description>

\<description>Test. <![CDATA[<img src='./files/Boston City Flow.jpg'>]]>=</description>

>>>

And the content of the path..

msvalkon@Lunkwill:~/Pictures/Sample Album$ ll
total 1208
drwxrwxr-x 2 msvalkon msvalkon   4096 Apr 19  2012 ./
drwxr-xr-x 7 msvalkon msvalkon  28672 Jan  3 18:27 ../
-rw-rw-r-- 1 msvalkon msvalkon 339773 Dec 13  2009 Boston City Flow.jpg
-rw-rw-r-- 1 msvalkon msvalkon 354633 Dec 13  2009 Costa Rican Frog.jpg
-rw-rw-r-- 1 msvalkon msvalkon 480098 Dec 13  2009 Pensive Parakeet.jpg

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