[Tutor] Python N00bi - Tough Cookie

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Hello All,

I want trying to write a program that searches all the files (recursively)
under a given directory in the filesystem for phone
 numbers in the form of (626) 674-5901 and  and then outputting all phone
numbers found in a unique format 626-674


(If several numbers have the same office code, there should be only one line
of output for that office code.)

There are following requirments
1> Search for a pattern in all files in a directory
2> Outputing the result with a unique format ( (626) 674-5901 -> 626-674 )
3> if the result has new office code (which I am guessing first 3 digits --
626) -- add to new line
   if the result has office code already in the list then append


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I have generated the regular expression for the pattern ....  and have
tested it also....

\([0-9]{3}\)\s[0-9]{3}-[0-9]{4}

>>> import re
>>> p = re.compile('\([0-9]{3}\)\s[0-9]{3}-[0-9]{4}')
>>> p = re.compile('\([0-9]{3}\)\s[0-9]{3}-[0-9]{4}')
>>> p
<_sre.SRE_Pattern object at 0x00C400B8>
>>> p
<_sre.SRE_Pattern object at 0x00C400B8>
>>> print p.match("")
None
>>> print p.match('(619) 223-1212')
<_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x00A3F678>

I need options to proceed after finding the match in the files.....

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
I was thinking to find all filenames in the directory using something like
....

import os
path="C:\\somedirectory"  # insert the path to the directory of interest
here
dirList=os.listdir(path)
for fname in dirList:
    print fname

Am I thinking correct ???

~Thanks
Geo
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