Regex Python Help

Gregg Dotoli gdotoli at gmail.com
Tue Mar 24 15:22:38 EDT 2015


Thank you! But

The print error is gone, but now the script quickly finishes and doesnt walk
the OS tree or search.

Gregg 



On Tuesday, March 24, 2015 at 2:14:32 PM UTC-4, Gregg Dotoli wrote:
> I am creating a tool to search a filesystem for one simple string.
> I cannot get the syntax correct.
> Thank you in advance for your help.
> 
> import sys
> import re
> import os
> path='/'
> viewfiles=os.listdir(path)
> for allfiles in viewfiles:
>     file= os.path.join(path, allfiles)
> text=open(file, "r")
> for line in text:
>     if re.match("DECRYPT_I", line):
>         print line, 
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> This should search every file for the simple regex "DECRYPT_I"
> This is from the root down.
> 
> The error is:
> 
> SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'
> 
> Please help.
> Gregg Dotoli




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