Just set the current directory to the one you want to search using os.chdir(myPath)
or pass a full path to glob: glob.glob("/some/path/to/search/*.txt") HTH, Alan G. "Alejandro Decchi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > perfect but can you give me a link to find a file in a > directory.Because i > do not the function to search files in some directory. Can you give > an > example : > > On 7/4/07, Alan Gauld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> "Alejandro Decchi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote >> >> > Is the word or part of the word that the user enters in the >> > texbox . >> > And this word is the name of the file to be found >> >> Ok, In that case use the glob function in the glob module. >> It returns a list of all files that match a pattern: >> >> >>> import glob >> >>> files = glob.glob("*.txt") >> >>> print files >> >> For more powerful searches you can use os.walk() >> >> See the OS topic in my tutorial for more examples of >> using glob and os.walk >> >> HTH, >> >> -- >> Alan Gauld >> Author of the Learn to Program web site >> http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor >> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor