findup 0.1.0

# python-findup

## Introduction

Find the first file matching a given pattern in the current directory or the nearest ancestor directory. This project is (roughly) a python version of [node-findup-sync](https://github.com/cowboy/node-findup-sync).

## Installation

The best way to install is probably to use pip:

pip install findup

Or you can clone and install findup from github:

git clone https://github.com/todddeluca/python-findup.git cd python-findup python setup.py install

## Usage

pattern is combined with the current working directory or an ancestor directory and passed to glob.glob to see if the pattern matches. If it does, the first match is returned. Pattern can contain some shell wildcard characters, like ? and *. See the python glob module for more details.

findup.glob(pattern)