how to search for file's has a known file extension like .py ??
fext = raw_input("Put file extension to search: ")
dir = raw_input("Dir to search in: ")
##Search for the file and get the right one's
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A:
I believe you want to do something like similar to this: /dir/to/search/*.extension?
This is called glob and here is how to use it:
import glob
files = glob.glob('/path/*.extension')
Edit: and here is the documentation: http://docs.python.org/library/glob.html
adamse
2010-03-14 13:24:44
yea this what i want, but does it work in windows ??
Rami Jarrar
2010-03-14 13:26:08
There is no reason for this not to work. From the docs "This is done by using the os.listdir() and fnmatch.fnmatch() functions in concert, and not by actually invoking a subshell". (I also believe that this is the correct solution to your problem, one should prefer built-in functionality before creating ones own.)
adamse
2010-03-14 14:04:41
A:
Non-recursive:
for x in os.listdir(dir):
if x.endswith(fext):
filename = os.path.join(dir, x)
# do your stuff here
Tuomas Pelkonen
2010-03-14 13:25:57
x is only the filename without the directory name, at least in python 2.5 and python 2.6 IIRC
Tuomas Pelkonen
2010-03-14 15:39:41
This has a bug—it catches `.epy` files when you are looking for `.py` files. Also, `glob.glob` is the right tool for this job.
Mike Graham
2010-03-14 17:38:57
Mike: it won't catch `.epy` files when looking for `.py` files. It will when looking for `py` files.
ΤΖΩΤΖΙΟΥ
2010-03-15 22:47:51
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A:
import os
root="/home"
ext = raw_input("Put file extension to search: ")
path = raw_input("Dir to search in: ")
for r,d,f in os.walk(path):
for files in f:
if files.endswith(ext):
print "found: ",os.path.join(r,files)
ghostdog74
2010-03-14 13:39:30
A:
You can write is as simple as:
import os
ext = raw_input("Put file extension to search: ")
path = raw_input("Dir to search in: ")
matching_files = [os.path.join(path, x) for x in os.listdir(path) if x.endswith(ext)]
mojbro
2010-03-14 15:06:47