On 6 9 , 3 33 , HMS Surprise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, > > Could someone point my muddled head at a/the python repository. I know > that one exists but cannot find it again. In particular I am looking > for a standalone search tool that given a path searches files for a > text string. > > Thanks, > > jvh
grep maybe the best choice. if you want a pure python script here it is. #!/usr/bin/python # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- # # File: grep.py # Author: phus try: import psyco psyco.full() except ImportError: print 'no mod psyco' import os, re def grep_r(rx, path): root = path dirstack = [root] while len(dirstack) > 0: dir = dirstack.pop() try: dirs = os.listdir(dir) except: print "os.listdir('%s') error: %s" % (dir, os.error) continue for name in dirs: fullname = os.path.join(dir, name) if os.path.isdir(fullname): dirstack.append(fullname) else: grep(rx, fullname) def grep(rx, file): try: f = open(file, "r") for line in f: if rx.findall(line): print file, ":", line.strip() f.close() except: print "grep error in %s" % file if __name__ == "__main__": patern = "blah blah" rx = re.compile(patern, re.I) grep_r(rx, '.') -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list