On Sep 26, 6:35Â am, Stef Mientki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello, > > I want to search multiple textfiles (python source files) for a specific > word. > I can find all files, open them and do a search, > but I guess that will be rather slow. > > I couldn't find any relevant information through google. > > Does anyone know of a search library that performs this task fast ? > > If it indeed only concerns py-files, > is there another way of searching words ? > ( I could imagine that such a "py-only-search" would have benefits, > because you could set a flag to see the words in comment yes or no ) > > thanks, > Stef Mientki > > Het UMC St Radboud staat geregistreerd bij de Kamer van Koophandel in het > handelsregister onder nummer 41055629. > The Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre is listed in the Commercial > Register of the Chamber of Commerce under file number 41055629.
I use 'fgrep' ie... `fgrep -r "toFind" /source` ~Sean -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list