> 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