python glob.glob - how to find a specific file (or a list of files) without knowing how deep it in in subdirs?

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Right now, I use subprocess to invocate `find` which does the job fine, but I am after a pythonic way of doing things. here's the current code: ``` cmd = "find /sys/devices/pci* | grep '/net/' |grep address" p = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, shell=True) ``` In the output I receive the following list: ``` [root@host1 ~]# find /sys/devices/pci* |grep '/net/'|grep 'address' /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:07.0/0000:04:00.0/0000:05:00.0/0000:06:00.0/0000:07:00.0/0000:08:00.0/net/eth0/address /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:07.0/0000:04:00.0/0000:05:00.0/0000:06:00.0/0000:07:01.0/0000:09:00.0/net/eth1/address /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:07.0/0000:04:00.0/0000:05:00.0/0000:06:00.0/0000:07:02.0/0000:0a:00.0/net/rename4/address /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:07.0/0000:04:00.0/0000:05:00.0/0000:06:00.0/0000:07:03.0/0000:0b:00.0/net/eth3/address /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:07.0/0000:04:00.0/0000:05:00.0/0000:06:00.0/0000:07:04.0/0000:0c:00.0/net/eth4/address /sys/device…

Accepted Answer

Have you checked out os.walk()?

```
import os
for root, dirs, names in os.walk(path):
    ...
```

http://docs.python.org/library/os.html#os.walk

From the above link, here is a way to skip over certain directories:

```
import os
from os.path import join, getsize
for root, dirs, files in os.walk('python/Lib/email'):
    print root, "consumes",
    print sum(getsize(join(root, name)) for name in files),
    print "bytes in", len(files), "non-directory files"
    if 'CVS' in dirs:
        dirs.remove('CVS')  # don't visit CVS directories
```

python glob.glob - how to find a specific file (or a list of files) without knowing how deep it in in subdirs?

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