[Tutor] looking for a pattern in a lot of files

[Max Noel]

On May 22, 2005, at 21:07, Jonas Melian wrote:

> for line in fileinput.input(glob.glob(os.path.join
>         (dir_locales, "*_[A-Z][A-Z]"))):
>     if re.search("locale for", line):
>         print line

     If you're only looking for the occurrence of a string and not a  
regex pattern, you don't have to use regular expressions:


if "locale for" in line:
     print line


     Works just as well, and is faster.

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