Re: Smaple of recursive directory walker

2006-07-30 Thread Traveler
Thank you very much that is what i was looking for. On 30 Jul 2006 13:18:51 -0700, "Ant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Traveler wrote: >> yes this is great i will work from that but how can i use say a list >> to pass 10 words? >> >> mylist = ['word1','word2','word3','word4'] >... >> >for root,

Re: Smaple of recursive directory walker

2006-07-30 Thread Ant
Traveler wrote: > yes this is great i will work from that but how can i use say a list > to pass 10 words? > > mylist = ['word1','word2','word3','word4'] ... > >for root, dirs, files in os.walk('~/mydir'): > >for file in [f for f in files if f.endswith(".txt")]: > >fh = open(file) > >

Re: Smaple of recursive directory walker

2006-07-29 Thread Traveler
yes this is great i will work from that but how can i use say a list to pass 10 words? mylist = ['word1','word2','word3','word4'] On 29 Jul 2006 12:01:03 -0700, "Ant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> At work I have a directory of about 50 large text files and i need to >> search thru them for 1

Re: Smaple of recursive directory walker

2006-07-29 Thread Ant
> At work I have a directory of about 50 large text files and i need to > search thru them for 10 separate words and print how many were found > in total. > > I am new to python so could somebody please show me some sample code > that would help me get this done and i will work from that. Assumin

Smaple of recursive directory walker

2006-07-29 Thread Traveler
Hello, At work I have a directory of about 50 large text files and i need to search thru them for 10 separate words and print how many were found in total. I am new to python so could somebody please show me some sample code that would help me get this done and i will work from that. Thanks. -