Full Search for File

# search for a filename in a given folder and all its subfolders
# tested with Python24  by  HAB

import os

def file_find(folder, fname):
    """search for a filename fname starting in folder"""
    for root, dirs, files in os.walk(folder):
        for file in files:
            # make search case insensitive
            if fname.lower() == file.lower():
                return os.path.join(root, fname)
    return None

# file to search for ...
fname = "quiz2.py"
# folder to start search ...
folder  = r"C:\Python24\Atest"

result = file_find(folder, fname)

if result:
    print "File found -->", result
else:
    print "File %s not found" % fname