[Tutor] Find a Word in *.py (Win XP)

[W W]

You know, it probably wouldn't be terribly difficult to write the search in
python. Then you *could* find strings inside rather easily.

HTH,
Wayne

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Wayne Watson
<sierra_mtnview at sbcglobal.net>wrote:

>  Thanks. I'll post a msg to a XP group about this. I suspect Python hashes
> the code somehow.
>
> Findstr? Wow, that's got to be old. Where did you find that?
>
>
> Alan Gauld wrote:
>
>
> "Wayne Watson" <sierra_mtnview at sbcglobal.net><sierra_mtnview at sbcglobal.net>wrote
>
> Just using the standard Win XP Pro folder search.
> I target the folder with my py programs, use *.py to
> search, and specify I'm looking for angle in the files it finds.
>
>
> Yes, I get the same behaviour!
> I tried searching for 'import' which should be almost every file!
> It came up blank. When I tried tkinter it found one file with Tkinter
> in the file name. It seems it is not looking inside the file!
>
> Weird.
>
> However the DOS command findstr works as expected!
>
> Alan G
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