Re: Searching for a file

On 25/05/2025 00:18, Mats Wichmann wrote:
> On 5/23/25 16:05, Rob Cliffe via Python-list wrote:
>>
>>
>> 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
>
> They don't give you "search in a list of directories" intrinsically, 
> but that's simple loop, bailing out on a match, no?
>
> pathlib's glob method is more like glob.glob than os.walk - though 
> there's also a walk method in pathlib that's in the same spirit as 
> os.walk. The globs are only recursive if you ask them to be, and if 
> you don't want wildcarding, don't include any wildcard characters in 
> the pattern.
Yes, but if I understand correctly, they all start from a single 
directory (and work downwards if required).
My suggestion involved searching a *list* (possibly multiple lists) of 
directories.
Rob
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