Re: Searching for a file

On 2025-08-05, Michael Torrie via Python-list <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 5/24/25 7:19 PM, Chris Angelico via Python-list wrote:
>> On Sun, 25 May 2025 at 10:05, Rob Cliffe via Python-list
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 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.
>> 
>> for dir in dirs:
>>     try: open(dir + "/" + fn).close()
>>     except FileNotFoundError: pass
>>     else: break
>> 
>> Is this really all that difficult? Not everything has to be in the stdlib.
>
> That would modify atime on unix file systems, no?  Of course most modern
> file systems on SSDs are mounted with noatime, but still.

Why not call os.stat() instead of open/close?

Maybe that's already been suggested. I forget -- this is a pretty old thread.