On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Shiva <shivaji...@yahoo.com.dmarc.invalid> wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to search a string through files in a directory - however while > Python script works on it and writes a log - I want to present the user with > count of number of strings found. So it should increment for each string > found. > > How do I implement it? > > If I use a print() within a if condition statement - and execute the script > in terminal - for each find, the print() prints in new line instead of a > constantly incrementing counter.
Before the loop, initialize the counter to 0: counter = 0 Inside the loop, increment the counter: counter = counter + 1 # can be shortened to: counter += 1 Alternatively, if you have all the strings you want to count in a list, you can just check the length of the list: print(len(os.listdir("/some/directory"))) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list