Recursively search directory tree for requirement files based on some unix-stlye glob pattern

[zacharymostowsky]

Hello,

Thanks a bunch for this library. I have a use case where there are many requirements.txt (and requirements-devel.txt) in my repo. I was was wondering if you would be open to functionality for recursively searching a directory tree, finding the files that match the glob, and then do the checks on those?

Thanks,
Zach

[rehandalal]

Hi! Thanks for the suggestion. I think this is generally better handled by your terminals own globbing. What shell/OS are you running?

Would something like this work?:

sort-requirements requirements/**/requirements*.txt

[zacharymostowsky]

Hey thanks for the quick response. I am using bash shell on a mixture of ubuntu and Windows (use Git Bash in Windows). We can certainly use find or another utility to glob on command line and that works well for a CI pipeline or some other script. But, I was hoping to make life a little easier for developers where the functionality would work in a manner similar to pylama and black. These tools recursively search a given path for python files. I thought we could do something similar where by default the tool searches for *requirements.txt but a user could override to provide any glob you want essentially.

[zacharymostowsky]

This worked for me btw, in case others are interested.

find . -iname 'requirements*.txt' -exec sort-requirements {} +

[rehandalal]

Let me take some time to explore how black and pylama handle this. I assume they use something like --include and --exclude options to specify pattern matching?

I think I want to come up with a spec that feels consistent with out Python CLI tools so that the functionality is more intuitive.

My other concern is making sure I can do this easily in Python without adding dependencies. My goal with this tool was to have it be free from dependence on other libraries. I think Python's built-in glob should work but I need to poke around and find out for certain.

[rehandalal]

In the meanwhile (and at the risk of shameless self promotion) another solution that could give your developers a more consistent easy interface is to use this tool my other project: https://github.com/rehandalal/therapist

[zacharymostowsky]

Thanks, @rehandalal. I will check out therapist as well. If you didn't want to change the default functionality of sort-requirements, maybe just an optional flag you can provide a , separated list of globs to or something like that. Agreed about dependencies. I think the glob module would work fine for this.