Problem searching for files

Hi I would like to know if there is an easy way for me to specify a few different file types eg .jpg .gif and be able to enter into a field a name and search for a file that has those extensions

eg if I type the name sunsets I want to be able to find every file with the name sunsets or sun or sets

I tried using OS.WALK but I was unable to figure it out from the documentation

I am using python 2.3

Any help is always appreciated

Cheers

Maboroshi

Hey Thank you very much

I have another question however I was wondering how I could limit the search to the contents of the search name it seems to print out every or almost every image with a gif or jpg extension

Like if I type beach it should only find the images with a beach name with a gif or jpg extension

Cheers

and thank you

um, just replace "name.endswith('.jpg')" with whatever string checking you want

Hi and thank you again

I should explain myself better

I have a Tkinter GUI with an entry widget and a button widget and other widgets

I would like to be able to enter information into my entry widget and search for it using the function attached to my button. Which is the one you have been helping me out with

if I take out the .jpg or .gif in the name.endswith it will have everything appear which is not what I want

I would like to do a search and find all the image files ending with a .jpg .gif or whatever using the name that was entered into the entry field in my gui

So I guess my problem now is how do I use the entry fields value to do a search

No, don't take it out, replace it with the right stuff. The code wasn't meant to be used exactly, it was meant to teach you the concepts. If you don't understand what the code does, it does you no good.

Yes I do not entirely understand the code

but I will explain what I understand so far

filenames = {'jpg': [], 'gif': []} this I assume is the extension to look for in the os

path this I assume is the path to the directory to search in

for root, dirs, files in os.walk(path): this is looping through all the directories files in root which is my path and finding the files

for name in files: search for a filename in the files that it has searched through

if name.endswith('.jpg'):
filenames['jpg'].append(os.path.join(root, name))

Please correct me if I am totally wrong

I want to learn

My problem is I don't know what the right stuff is

Cheers

If you're simply searching for file names containing a substring then you can use 'sub string' in 'main string'. It really depends on what you're looking for. You might also be interested in the glob module.

http://www.python.org/doc/2.3.3/lib/module-glob.html

Which provides *nix style file/path name searching. And well, if its good enough for *nix it cant be bad

Mark.