Re: Searching for a file
Rob Cliffe via Python-list <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.python.general |
|---|---|
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 23/05/2025 18:55, Mats Wichmann wrote: > On 5/22/25 21:04, Rob Cliffe via Python-list wrote: >> It occurs to me that it might be useful if Python provided a function >> to search for a file with a given name in various directories (much >> as the import.import_lib function searches for a module in the >> directories in sys.path). >> This function would perhaps be best placed in the os.path or os modules. >> To start the ball rolling, I offer this version: > consider: os.walk, glob.glob, Path.glob > > I have. None of these are appropriate. os.walk iterates *recursively* over a *single* directory and its subdirectories. pathlib.Path.glob so far as I can make out (I have never used pathlib) does much the same. glob.glob (so far as I can make out) does a *wildcard* search for directories matching a *single* pattern. My suggestion needs a *non-recursive* search for a *file* in a *list* of *non-wildcarded* directories. Best wishes Rob Cliffe -- https://mail.python.org/mailman3//lists/python-list.python.org