To get a list of files in a given directory one can use glob.glob and
os.path.isfile
>>> from os.path import isfile
>>> from glob import glob
>>> files_in_var_tmp = [f for f in glob('/var/tmp/*') if isfile(f) ]
For several directories iterate over the dirs and add the resulting list of
files.
>>> tmp_files = []
>>> for dir in ['/tmp', '/var/tmp']:
... tmp_files += [f for f in glob(dir + '/*') if isfile(f) ]
ti 27.5.2025 klo 17.05 Peter J. Holzer (hjp-pyt...@hjp.at) kirjoitti:
> On 2025-05-24 17:18:11 -0600, Mats Wichmann wrote:
> > On 5/23/25 16:05, Rob Cliffe via Python-list wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > They don't give you "search in a list of directories" intrinsically, but
> > that's simple loop, bailing out on a match, no?
>
> But they all read directories. For Rob's purpose this isn't necessary.
> He just needs to test a fixed number of locations. Reading even one
> directory (muss less recursively scanning a whole tree like os.walk
> does) is just pointless extra work.
>
> hjp
>
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