A question

[Fredrik Lundh]

Will Ware <wware-nospam at world.std.com> wrote:
> Other folks have mentioned glob.glob(), which will work fine for
> things like "*.txt". If you want something more flexible, for
> instance all the *.c and *.h files that mention printf,
> you'd want to iterate on the output of something like
> 
> find . -name '*.[ch]' -exec grep -l printf {} \;

footnote:

import find

for file in find.find("*.[ch]", "."):
    print file

solves half of that problem.  string.find can be used
to handle the rest, in a portable way.

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