search files in a directory

2006-04-20 Thread david brochu jr 
Hello,
 
I need to open every file in a directory and search for a string. What module is needed to do this and how would I go about searching each file?
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Re: search files in a directory

2006-04-20 Thread Gary Herron 
david brochu jr wrote:

> Hello,
>  
> I need to open every file in a directory and search for a string. What 
> module is needed to do this and how would I go about searching each file?

os.listdir(dir)  gives a list of all the file in a directory.  You can 
then loop through the list.

open can be used to open a file
The open file has several methods to read bytes from the file:
read() gets the whole file at once
readline() return a line at a time
other possibilities exist

You can test to see if a string s is in another string t with
  if s in t: ...

Hope that helps,
Gary Herron

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Re: search files in a directory

2006-04-21 Thread bruno at modulix 
Gary Herron wrote:
> david brochu jr wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>>  
>> I need to open every file in a directory and search for a string. What
>> module is needed to do this and how would I go about searching each file?

[bash] find /path/to/dir -exec grep -le "searched string" {} \;

Ho, you meant : doing this in Python ?-)


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