On Thursday, 16 October 2014 15:05:47 UTC+1, Ian wrote: > I would have suggested a Counter if I thought it fit the OP's use > case. If you're listing directory contents, you're not going to have > any repeated strings, so all the counts will be 1, and your Counter > might as well be a list, which is what you got from calling > os.listdir() in the first place. So I was more inclined to think that > the OP was only trying to count one thing.
I read the OP's question as he was looking for the string in the contents of each file in the directory not in the file names themselves but as you say... > In any case, the question turned out to actually be about printing, > not counting. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
