Practice Makes Perfect!

For the inputs, use folders in your Mac. Try out different regular expressions as the input keyword.

Implement a stand-alone script that does the following function

input -

taking an argument “root_dir” as a root directory to start traversing taking an argument “keyword” as a regular expression for example ( “^[a-zA-Z]+_TESTResult.*” ) to detect a file contains an interested string

Functionality-

script should recursively walk the “root_dir” and detect all the files under that dir which contains “keywords” and count the number of files for each sub dir. All results should be saved in a key:value array with key being subdir string, and value being counts of files containing the keyword

Output - (1) An output array of all the data, for example {’a/b’: 6, ’a/b/c’: 7, ‘/a/b/c/d’:0} (2) An output graph with a plot with X as subdir name string, Y as count

So above is a sample quiz I pulled from the web to try to do..

To be honest Im not 100% sure on where to start Normally I break it down to be less jargon first see below

• taking an argument “root_dir” as a root directory to start traversing

• taking an argument “keyword” as a regular expression

• recursively walk the “root_dir” - (This I'm not quite sure how to do)

• detect all the files under that dir contains “keywords”

• count the number of files for that sub dir

• results should be saved in a key:value array with key being subdir string, and value being counts of file contains the key line

• A output array of all the data, for example {’a/b’: 6, ’a/b/c’: 7, ‘/a/b/c/d’:0}

• An output graph with a plot with X as subdir name string, Y as count values.

I believe I would import the OS, RE and Plot libraries first

import os
import re
 import matplotlib as plt

 def find(path)
    for root, dirs, files in os.walk(path) ---> is this correct to walk the root dir
      for names in files: 
        count = re.search([\w]* ]
          return count 

 print(count)
 plt.ylabel(count)
 plt.show()

make a function that searches the root - using os.walk(path) at the same time counting?

using RegEx's come up with something that will find a good amount of things while walking

while storing the count into another variable that shoots out an array??

and then plot the data so use matplotlib to make a graph....

Please help I'm lost

This is just for my own brain teaser.. Even some direction on good info on the task at hand would be appreciated

I can only really find things about regular expression on here in the python lang

Something tells me this is a lot simpler then I'm making it