You know, it probably wouldn't be terribly difficult to write the search in python. Then you *could* find strings inside rather easily.
HTH, Wayne On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Wayne Watson <sierra_mtnv...@sbcglobal.net>wrote: > Thanks. I'll post a msg to a XP group about this. I suspect Python hashes > the code somehow. > > Findstr? Wow, that's got to be old. Where did you find that? > > > Alan Gauld wrote: > > > "Wayne Watson" > <sierra_mtnv...@sbcglobal.net><sierra_mtnv...@sbcglobal.net>wrote > > Just using the standard Win XP Pro folder search. > I target the folder with my py programs, use *.py to > search, and specify I'm looking for angle in the files it finds. > > > Yes, I get the same behaviour! > I tried searching for 'import' which should be almost every file! > It came up blank. When I tried tkinter it found one file with Tkinter > in the file name. It seems it is not looking inside the file! > > Weird. > > However the DOS command findstr works as expected! > > Alan G > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > > > -- > > Wayne Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA) > > (121.01 Deg. W, 39.26 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time) * > Copper and its alloys have been found effective in hospital > sinks, hand rails, beds, ... in significantly reducing > bacteria. Estimates are 1/20 people admitted to a hospital > become infected, and 1/20 die from the infection. > -- NPR Science Friday, 01/16/2009 ***** > Web Page: <www.speckledwithstars.net/> > > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > > -- To be considered stupid and to be told so is more painful than being called gluttonous, mendacious, violent, lascivious, lazy, cowardly: every weakness, every vice, has found its defenders, its rhetoric, its ennoblement and exaltation, but stupidity hasn't. - Primo Levi
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