[Tutor] "return" and recursive functions

[Jon Cosby]

Problem: I need the following code to return search results for the given
directory and it's sub-directories. As it is, it's returning "hits" only for
the root directory. Any ideas as to how to work around this?

Jon Cosby

def getFile(text, dir):
    hits = []
    dl = os.listdir(dir)
    text = string.lower(text)
    for d in dl:
        d = dir + '\\' + d
        if os.path.isfile(d):
            hits.extend(searchtext(text, d))     # Search file for word
        elif os.path.isdir(d):
            getFile(text, d)         # Do sub-directories
    return hits