How to get filepath in Python using the filename?

Question

I know the name of the file stored on my pc which I want to open in a web page application. I need the to send the filepath to a html file for the same. So I want to get filepath using the filename in Python or HTML.

I tried using the os.path.dirname(filename) in Python but it didn't work because the attribute is supposed to be a path for this function.

Answer 1

• use os.path.abspath to get a normalized absolutized version of the pathname
• use os.walk to get it's location

code :

import os
file_ = 'filename.txt'

for root, dirs, files in os.walk('C:/'):
    for name in files:
        if file_ in name:
            print (os.path.abspath(os.path.join(root, name)))

output:

C:\Users\User\Desktop\filename.txt