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Mike Klaas mike.klaas at gmail.com
Tue May 1 06:49:48 CEST 2007


On 4/30/07, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:

JOSHUA ABRAHAM wrote: > I was hoping you guys would consider creating function in os.path or > otherwise that would find the full path of a file when given only it's base > name and nothing else.I have been made to understand that this is not > currently possible.

Does os.path.abspath() do what you want? If not, what exactly do you want?

probably:

def find_in_path(filename): for path in os.environ['PATH'].split(os.pathsep): if os.path.exists(filename): return os.path.abspath(os.path.join(path, filename))

-Mike



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