how to search multiple textfiles ?

[Mike Driscoll]

On Sep 26, 8:35 am, Stef Mientki <s.mien... at ru.nl> wrote:
> hello,
>
> I want to search multiple textfiles (python source files) for a specific
> word.
> I can find all files, open them and do a search,
> but I guess that will be rather slow.
>
> I couldn't find any relevant information through google.
>
> Does anyone know of a search library that performs this task fast ?
>
> If it indeed only concerns py-files,
> is there another way of searching words ?
> ( I could imagine that such a "py-only-search" would have benefits,
> because you could set a flag to see the words in comment yes or no )
>
> thanks,
> Stef Mientki
>
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On Windows I use the free version of Bare Grep: http://www.baremetalsoft.com/baregrep/

No, it's not a Python solution, but it works for my needs. You should
try using Python to search your script files and see if it really is
too slow though.

Mike