[Tutor] Tutor Digest, Vol 25, Issue 83

[Janesh Ramakrishnan]

Hi Kent:

Thanks for your response. The Grep function does a really good job of searching across .py files in a directory or subdirectories for the specific keyword/string. 

In the PythonWin interpreter 2.1, Go to File -> New -> Grep and the search string can be entered. It is useful in searching strings across multiple files, especially in large projects.

~Janesh


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Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 21:22:39 -0500
From: Kent Johnson <kent37 at tds.net>
Subject: Re: [Tutor] Searching across .Py files for a particular
	string/	character
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Janesh Ramakrishnan wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> I was wondering what would be the best way to look up a string across
> 
different files in the Python interpreter (PythonWin 2.4). The find
function only finds files within currently open files. If I have a
folder of .py scripts and need to look up a specific keyword or string
among all these files within the project folder, is there any method
that you'd recommend?

I would do that in my editor, probably. But Python can get a list of 
files in a directory with os.listdir(). Loop over the files, use 
os.path.join() to make a full path, open the file, read the data, look 
for the string in the data.

Kent