Searching datastores w/ pyVmomi

pyvmomi.py

from pyVim.connect import SmartConnect, Disconnect
from pyVmomi import vim, vmodl

import argparse
import atexit
import sys
import pprint

si = SmartConnect(host="192.168.1.7", user="root", pwd="vmware")
servcontent = si.RetrieveServiceContent()
rf = servcontent.rootFolder
dc = rf.childEntity # what does this return? hint: look at the docs, or MOB 
hostdatastorebrowser = dc[0].datastore[0].browser

# following is optional. without a SearchSpec, it will just find everything.
# searchspec = vim.Host.DatastoreBrowserSearchSpec()
# what if we wanted to find only .vmx files?

task = hostdatastorebrowser.SearchDatastore_Task(datastorePath='[datastore1]')

pp = pprint.PrettyPrinter()
pp.pprint(task.info.result)

print task.info