file search using python

Hesham Azhar answered on September 6, 2021 Popularity 8/10 Helpfulness 3/10

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import os
import re
import win32api

def find_file(root_folder, rex):
    for root,dirs,files in os.walk(root_folder):
        for f in files:
            result = rex.search(f)
            if result:
                print os.path.join(root, f)
                break # if you want to find only one

def find_file_in_all_drives(file_name):
    #create a regular expression for the file
    rex = re.compile(file_name)
    for drive in win32api.GetLogicalDriveStrings().split('\000')[:-1]:
        find_file( drive, rex )


find_file_in_all_drives( 'myfile\.doc' )

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with open('largeFile', 'r') as inF:
    for line in inF:
        if 'myString' in line:
            # do_something

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