The grep module
(Obsolete; removed in 2.0) This module provides different ways to search for text in text files.
The grep function takes a regular expression (using the old regex syntax, and a list of files to search.
Example: Using the grep module
# File: grep-example-1.py import grep import glob grep.grep("\<rather\>", glob.glob("samples/*.txt"))
$ python grep-example-1.py 4: indentation, rather than delimiters, might become