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 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. > >Assuming it's primarily the directory walk you need help with, >something like the following should help: > >for root, dirs, files in os.walk('~/mydir'): > for file in [f for f in files if f.endswith(".txt")]: > fh = open(file) > for line in fh: > # Search for words. > fh.close() -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list