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Re: Find in ipython3

From	random832@fastmail.us
References	<87y4k2hyvf.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl>
Subject	Re: Find in ipython3
Date	2015-06-04 16:13 -0400
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Message-ID	<mailman.177.1433448836.13271.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Tue, Jun 2, 2015, at 12:13, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
> I am thinking about using ipython3 instead of bash. When I want to
> find a file I can do the following:
>     !find ~ -iname '*python*.pdf'
> but is there a python way?

Python really isn't a good substitute for a shell, but the normal python
way to do this task is:

import os, os.path, fnmatch

home = os.path.expanduser('~')  # only needed since you used ~
for dirpath, dirnames, filenames in os.walk(home):
    print(dirpath)
    for filename in filenames:
        if(fnmatch.fnmatch(filename.lower(), '*python*.pdf')):
            print(os.path.join(dirpath, filename))

Note that if you have filenames with invalid unicode characters (or any
non-ASCII characters at all on Windows) you may have to do additional
processing to the filename before printing it. And of course instead of
printing it you may want to store the filenames in a list for further
processing. But these are the basic building blocks.

I don't use ipython, so I don't know what it provides if anything to
make any of this easier.

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Find in ipython3 Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-06-02 18:13 +0200
  Re: Find in ipython3 Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2015-06-04 12:54 +1000
    Re: Find in ipython3 Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-06-04 07:09 +0200
      Re: Find in ipython3 Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2015-06-04 15:43 +1000
      Re: Find in ipython3 Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2015-06-04 14:27 +0000
        Re: Find in ipython3 Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-06-04 17:12 +0200
          Re: Find in ipython3 Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2015-06-04 13:11 -0600
  Re: Find in ipython3 Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2015-06-04 13:09 -0600
  Re: Find in ipython3 Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2015-06-04 14:17 -0500
  Re: Find in ipython3 random832@fastmail.us - 2015-06-04 16:13 -0400
    Re: Find in ipython3 Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-06-05 09:17 +0200
      Re: Find in ipython3 Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-06-06 11:57 +0200
        Re: Find in ipython3 Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-06-06 13:07 +0200
          Re: Find in ipython3 Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-06-07 08:20 +0200
            Re: Find in ipython3 Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2015-06-07 17:38 +1000
            Re: Find in ipython3 Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-06-07 11:33 +0200
              Re: Find in ipython3 Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-06-07 23:16 +1000
            Re: Find in ipython3 Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2015-06-07 12:27 +0200
            Re: Find in ipython3 Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-06-07 15:01 +0200
            Re: Find in ipython3 Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-06-07 22:13 +1000

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