Reputation: 1587
I have a list of full file paths:
filelist = [
"C:\Folder1\Files\fileabc.txt",
"C:\Folder1\Files\filedef.txt",
"C:\Folder2\Data\file123.txt"
]
I want to find a file in the list by its basename, with the extension, but without specifying full path.
I've tried something like this:
name = "filedef.txt"
if name in filelist:
print "Found"
But it doesn't work.
Any hints?
Upvotes: 0
Views: 339
Reputation: 30473
You need to do two things. First, iterate through the array. Second, escape \
special character.
paths = [r'C:\Folder1\Files\fileabc.txt', r'C:\Folder1\Files\filedef.txt', r'C:\Folder2\Data\file123.txt']
name = 'filedef.txt'
for path in paths:
if name in path:
print('Found', path)
Upvotes: 1