an easy desktop search script for windows - simple filename-matching-with-keywords index (LICENSE: MIT)

index.py

# index-generation script for search.py - an easy desktop search script
import sys, os, re, pickle, stat

pfile = "_filelist.pkl"
path_separator = "\\"

#class File:
#    def __init__(self, path, filename):
#        self.path = path
#        self.filename = filename
#        try:
#            os.stat(path + path_separator + filename)
#        except: 
 #           pass
#    def get_keywords():
#        return [self.path, self.filename]

def get_keywords(filename, path):
#    s = os.stat(path+filename)
#    print path + path_separator + filename
    return [path, filename]

def make_new_list():
    names = {}
    for root, dirs, files in os.walk("."+path_separator):
        names[root] = [root]
        for dir in dirs: names[dir] = [dir]
        for file in files:
            for keyword in get_keywords(file, root):
                if not keyword in names:  names[keyword] = []
                names[keyword].append( root + path_separator + file )
    return names

def main():
    names = make_new_list()
    pickle.dump(names, open(pfile, 'wb'), -1) 
    print "index dumped on %s." % pfile

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

search.py

# an easy desktop search script for windows - simple filename-matching-with-keywords index 
import sys, os, re, pickle, stat

pfile = "_filelist.pkl"
path_separator = "\\"

def load_list():
    try:
        names = pickle.load(open(pfile, 'rb'))
        return names
    except:
        sys.stderr.write("no index, do index.py\n")
        raise

def main(argv):
    names = load_list()
    for (keyword, paths) in names.iteritems():
        for searchee in argv[1:]:
            if keyword.find( searchee ) > 0:
                for path in paths: print path

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main(sys.argv)