Finding file based on user input?

Question

I printed files using os.listdir() and found the files inside the folder i am looking for. I'm now looking for user input to know which files to look in. The files are in years and month and I'm not sure how?

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Answer 1

Are you expecting a year and month as input from the user? In that case you could parse the input string, then use some kind of regex matching to find the corresponding file.

Answer 2

Could try using this in that case:

year = input("Enter year :")
month = input("Enter day :")
date = year + month
found = False
for file_name in a:
    if date in file_name:
        print("File found!")
        found = True
        break
if not found:
    print("File not found")