import os
def look_in_directory(directory):
"""Loop through the current directory for the file, if the current item
is a directory, it recusively looks through that folder"""
# Loop over all the items in the directory
for f in os.listdir(directory):
# Uncomment the line below to see how the files/folders are searched
# print "Looking in " + directory
# If the item is a file check to see if it is what we are looking
# for, if it is, print that we found it and return true
if os.path.isfile(os.path.join(directory, f)):
if f == file_to_find:
print "Found file: " + os.path.join(directory, f)
return True
# If the item is a directory, we recursivley look through that
# directory if it is found, we again return true
if os.path.isdir(os.path.join(directory, f)):
if look_in_directory(os.path.join(directory, f)):
return True
# we will look for the file recursively
file_to_find = "jono.png"
# Start looking in the home directory (~)
# If it is not found, ie it did not return True, tell the user it was "Not
# Found"
if look_in_directory(os.path.expanduser("~")) != True:
print "Not Found"
#//python/2372