How do I search for a string containing today's date/dates in a file using python?-CodePudding

rom pathlib import Path

path = Path('/home/hell/Downloads/hello by Adele/')

search_string = 'completed on "%d/%m/%Y"' #%d/%m/%Y today's date
t=0
for o in path.rglob('*.sql'):
    if o.is_file():
        t= t 1
        text = o.read_text()
        if search_string not in text:
            print(o)
            break

search_string = 'completed on "%d/%m/%Y"'

the script is to search for a string.."completed on 13/13/2022". I would like to add date to the current date to the search parameter but cant figure out how.

kindly assist and thanks

CodePudding user response：

If you use the datetime library, you can get 'today' with

from datetime import date

t = date.today()

This will be a datetime.date object. You can then display it in whatever format you want with the .strftime() method, so you'd have display_date = t.strftime('%d/%m/%Y'). Your new object display_date will be a string in that format.

Do all of that first in your script, and then have your search_string = f'completed on {display_date}'

So in total you will have

from pathlib import Path
from datetime import date

t = date.today()
display_date = t.strftime('%d/%m/%Y')

path = Path('/home/hell/Downloads/hello by Adele/')

search_string = f'completed on {display_date}'
t=0
for o in path.rglob('*.sql'):
    if o.is_file():
        t= t 1
        text = o.read_text()
        if search_string not in text:
            print(o)
            break

CodePudding user response：

first get your today's date to string

from datetime import datetime
dateText = datetime.now().strftime("%d/%m/%Y")

then concat your "search_string"

search_string ='completed on ' dateText

>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> dateText = datetime.now().strftime("%d/%m/%Y")
>>> search_string ='completed on ' dateText
>>> print(search_string)
completed on 26/09/2022