Re: Searching for a file

"Peter J. Holzer" <[email protected]> Wed, 28 May 2025 11:29:58 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.python.general
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On 2025-05-28 10:59:16 +0300, Roland Mueller via Python-list wrote:
> ke 28.5.2025 klo 1.45 Thomas Passin ([email protected]) kirjoitti:
> > On 5/27/2025 10:41 AM, Roland Mueller via Python-list wrote:
> > > To get a list of files in a given directory one can use glob.glob and
> >
> > The OP had a different problem.  He wanted to find a config file of
> > known name that could be in one of several locations.
> >
> 
> This can be done by replacing the star wildcard  the join(dir, '*') with a
> filename or filename glob pattern.
> >>> tmp_files = []
> >>> for dir in ['/tmp', '/var/tmp']:
> ...     tmp_files += [f for f in glob(join(dir, filename_to_find))  if
> isfile(f) ]

But then the glob is useless.

Just try to open the file as Chris already demonstrated.

        hjp

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