Question

Can someone assist me in thinking my way through this problem. In the code below, I’m taking a list and opening all of the .log and .txt files, as to search them for a particular string. In the inner most for loop there is an if and else statement that determines if a string was found or not. I want to count the number of files that a string was matched in …, and some kind of way pass that to the third(last) for loop and display … (eg. Files Matched: 4). I’m still learning python, so I’m unaware of all the different constructs that would expedite this endeavor. I’m sure this is a straight forward problem, but I have exhausted everything I know to do besides rote trial and error. Thanks!

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for afile in filelist:
    (head, filename) = os.path.split(afile)
    if afile.endswith(".log") or afile.endswith(".txt"):
        f=ftp.open(afile, 'r')
        for i, line in enumerate(f.readlines()):
            result = regex.search(line)
            if result:
                ln = str(i)
                pathname = os.path.join(afile)
                template = "\nLine: {0}\nFile: {1}\nString Type: {2}\n\n"
                output = template.format(ln, pathname, result.group())
                hold = output
                print output
                ftp.get(afile, 'c:\\Extracted\\' + filename)
                temp.write(output)
                break
        else:
            print "String Not Found in: " + os.path.join(afile)
            temp.write("\nString Not Found: " + os.path.join(afile))

        f.close()
for fnum in filelist:
    print "\nFiles Searched: ", len(filelist)
    print "Files Matched: ", count
    num = len(filelist)

    temp.write("\n\nFiles Searched: " + '%s\n' % (num))
    temp.write("Files Matched: ") # here is where I want to show the number of files matched
    break

Answer 1

How about this:

count = 0
for afile in filelist:
    (head, filename) = os.path.split(afile)
    if afile.endswith(".log") or afile.endswith(".txt"):
        f=ftp.open(afile, 'r')
        for i, line in enumerate(f.readlines()):
            result = regex.search(line)
            if result:
                count += 1
                ln = str(i)
                pathname = os.path.join(afile)
                template = "\nLine: {0}\nFile: {1}\nString Type: {2}\n\n"
                output = template.format(ln, pathname, result.group())
                hold = output
                print output
                ftp.get(afile, 'c:\\Extracted\\' + filename)
                temp.write(output)
                break
        else:
            print "String Not Found in: " + os.path.join(afile)
            temp.write("\nString Not Found: " + os.path.join(afile))

        f.close()
for fnum in filelist:
    print "\nFiles Searched: ", len(filelist)
    print "Files Matched: ", count
    num = len(filelist)

    temp.write("\n\nFiles Searched: " + '%s\n' % (num))
    temp.write("Files Matched: "+str(count)) # here is where I want to show the number of files matched
    break

count starts at 0 and increments for every file that there is a match for.