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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