file 10

10_find_files_recursively.py

@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+import fnmatch
+import os
+
+# constants
+PATH = '/../../../..'
+PATTERN = '*.py'
+
+
+def get_file_names(filepath, pattern):
+    matches = []
+    if os.path.exists(filepath):
+        for root, dirnames, filenames in os.walk(filepath):
+            for filename in fnmatch.filter(filenames, pattern):
+                # matches.append(os.path.join(root, filename))  # full path
+                matches.append(os.path.join(filename))  # just file name
+        if matches:
+            print "Found {} files:".format(len(matches))
+            output_files(matches)
+        else:
+            print "No files found."
+    else:
+        print "Sorry that path does not exist. Try again."
+
+
+def output_files(list_of_files):
+    for filename in list_of_files:
+        print filename
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    all_files = get_file_names(PATH, PATTERN)

readme.md

@@ -8,4 +8,5 @@
 1. **06_execution_time.py**: class used for timing execution of code
 1. **07_benchmark_permissions_loading_django.py**: benchmark loading of permissions in Django
 1. **08_basic_email_web_crawler.py**: web crawler for grabbing emails from a website recursively
-1. **08_basic_link_web_crawler.py**: web crawler for grabbing links from a website recursively
+1. **09_basic_link_web_crawler.py**: web crawler for grabbing links from a website recursively
+1. **10_find_files_recursively.py**: recursively grab files from a directory