How to search in multiple files with os.walk?

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What i have tried gave me the following error: line 322, in decode
(result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xc9 in position 99: invalid continuation byte

What I have tried:

Python

import os
import re


pattern = r'/d/d/d-/d/d/d-/d/d/d/d'

for folder, sub_folders,files in os.walk("/Users/alain/Downloads/extracted_content"):
    for file in files:
        with open(os.path.join(folder,file),'r') as f:
            if re.findall(pattern,f.read()):
                print("its in!")

Posted 22-Dec-20 5:28am

Member 13554627

Updated 22-Dec-20 10:16am

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Member 13554627 · Answer 1 · 2020-12-22T10:16:00

for the people with similar issues, i fixt it with the following adjustments

Python

import os
import re


pattern = r'\d{3}-\d{3}-\d{4}'

for folder, sub_folder, files in os.walk(r'/Users/alain/Downloads/extracted_content'):
    for file in files:
        if file.endswith('txt'):
            with open(os.path.join(folder, file)) as stream:
                for line in stream:
                    if re.search(pattern,line):
                        print("its in!")