Awesome! Thank you for the great info gentlemen. It should be an easy fix from here.
-----Original Message----- From: Tutor [mailto:tutor-bounces+d.wilder=f5....@python.org] On Behalf Of Steven D'Aprano Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2012 1:49 AM To: tutor@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 _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
