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Locating files throughout a directory tree

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os.walk is a very nice replacement for os.path.walk, which I never did feel comfortable with. There's one very common pattern of usage, though, which still benefits from a simple helper-function; locating all files matching a given file-name pattern within a directory tree.

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  1. import os, fnmatch
  2.  
  3. def locate(pattern, root=os.curdir):
  4.     '''Locate all files matching supplied filename pattern in and below
  5.     supplied root directory.'''
  6.     for path, dirs, files in os.walk(os.path.abspath(root)):
  7.         for filename in fnmatch.filter(files, pattern):
  8.             yield os.path.join(path, filename)

URL: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/499305

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