[Tutor] Help search files

Alejandro Decchi adecchi at gmail.com
Wed Jul 4 20:27:52 CEST 2007


perfect but can you give me a link to find a file in a directory.Because i
do not the function to search files in some directory. Can you give an
example :

On 7/4/07, Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com> wrote:
>
>
> "Alejandro Decchi" <adecchi at gmail.com> wrote
>
> > Is the word or part of the word that the user enters in the texbox .
> > And this word is the name of the file to be found
>
> Ok, In that case use the glob function in the glob module.
> It returns a list of all files that match a pattern:
>
> >>> import glob
> >>> files = glob.glob("*.txt")
> >>> print files
>
> For more powerful searches you can use os.walk()
>
> See the OS topic in my tutorial for more examples of
> using glob and os.walk
>
> HTH,
>
> --
> Alan Gauld
> Author of the Learn to Program web site
> http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld
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