Re: Searching for a file

On 5/28/25 03:29, Peter J. Holzer wrote:
> 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
> 
> 

Indeed - a simple loop over the possible dirs each concatenated with the 
known file name is quick and easy.

Was only responding on the glob/pathlib stuff as there seemed to be 
information missing, not to claim it was  necessarily a better solution 
for this need (could still be used, though).