How to get filepath in Python using the filename?

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I know the name of the file stored on my pc which I want to open in a web page application. I need the to send the filepath to a html file for the same. So I want to get filepath using the filename in Python or HTML.

I tried using the os.path.dirname(filename) in Python but it didn't work because the attribute is supposed to be a path for this function.

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unclear what you are asking or what you tried – Alex
So... Do you want a script to magically find a full path using only filename? Or are you in the directory with that file but can't get the full filepath? – h4z3
use python to write script which will check all filename in all folders. You can use for root, dirs, files in os.walk("/"): for this. – furas
on Linux is program locate filename which use database to keep "path/name" of all files and you can very fast find all files with this name (mostly there are more than one paht with this name)` You can use SQLite in Python to do the same. – furas

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  • use os.path.abspath to get a normalized absolutized version of the pathname
  • use os.walk to get it's location

code :

import os
file_ = 'filename.txt'

for root, dirs, files in os.walk('C:/'):
    for name in files:
        if file_ in name:
            print (os.path.abspath(os.path.join(root, name)))

output:

C:\Users\User\Desktop\filename.txt