[Tutor] Replacement for 'Find' Module

[Simon Gerber]

You could probably do something like this... (Note: This example is
for Linux - but you can adapt it fairly easily to Windows.)


# E.g. Find every .inf file on a CD-ROM.
path = '/cdrom'  
# 'E:\\' or whatever for Windows.... 
inf_list = []
for root, dirs, files in os.walk(path):
    for current_file in files:
        if '.inf' in current_file:
           inf_list.append(os.path.join(root, current_file))

I, too, would be interested in knowing if anyone has a better way to do this :)
You would probably combine the 'glob' module with os.walk to grab what
you wanted, and build the list of files that way.

Lemme know what you figure out.

Cheers,

On 15/08/05, Don Parris <gnumathetes at gmail.com> wrote:
> On my Windows XP box running Python 2.4, I attempted to use the 'find'
> module per the example in Programming Python (Ch. 2) - i.e.:
> >>>import find
> >>>find.find('*')
> 
> However, Python didn't find the find module.  The docs say it's now
> deprecated, but don't point to what tool should be used to replace
> find.  My Googling efforts haven't been fruitful so far.  Could
> someone please point me in the right direction?
> 
> Don
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> DC Parris GNU Evangelist
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