On 23/05/2025 18:55, Mats Wichmann wrote:
On 5/22/25 21:04, Rob Cliffe via Python-list wrote:
It occurs to me that it might be useful if Python provided a function
to search for a file with a given name in various directories (much
as the import.import_lib function searches for a module in the
directories in sys.path).
This function would perhaps be best placed in the os.path or os modules.
To start the ball rolling, I offer this version:
consider: os.walk, glob.glob, Path.glob
I have. None of these are appropriate.
os.walk iterates *recursively* over a *single* directory and its
subdirectories.
pathlib.Path.glob so far as I can make out (I have never used pathlib)
does much the same.
glob.glob (so far as I can make out) does a *wildcard* search for
directories matching a *single* pattern.
My suggestion needs a *non-recursive* search for a *file* in a *list* of
*non-wildcarded* directories.
Best wishes
Rob Cliffe
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