[Tutor] Filename match on file extensions

[Dave Wilder]

Awesome!  Thank you for the great info gentlemen.   It should be an easy fix from here.


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From: Tutor [mailto:tutor-bounces+d.wilder=f5.com at python.org] On Behalf Of Steven D'Aprano
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2012 1:49 AM
To: tutor at python.org
Subject: Re: [Tutor] Filename match on file extensions

On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 03:14:16AM +0000, Dave Wilder wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Below is a snippet of a search I want to do for any file that contains the string "quarantine" in the filename.
> It works for picking up any file name containing "quarantine" except when "quarantine" is used as an extension.

Incorrect. It only picks up filenames that *begin* with "quarantine". 
The critical code is:

i.lower().find("quarantine".lower()) == 0

which matches:

    quarantineblahblahblah.txt

but not

    blahblahquarantineblah.txt


The correct test for matching anywhere in the string is:

   "quarantine" in i.lower()

By the way, it is misleading to call your loop variable "i". By convention, i is used for integer loop variables. Since your loop variable in this case is a file name, I would name it "filename":

for filename in files:
    if "quarantine" in filename.lower():
        ...

Also, you might consider using the "glob" module, which is good for finding filenames matching so-called globs:

"quarantine*.txt"

matches file names starting with quarantine, ending with .txt, and anything at all in between.


-- 
Steven
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