Search for a file using a wildcard

Question

I want get a list of filenames with a search pattern with a wildcard. Like:

getFilenames.py c:\\PathToFolder\\*
getFilenames.py c:\\PathToFolder\\FileType*.t         


        

Answer 1

You can do it like this:

>>> import glob
>>> glob.glob('./[0-9].*')
['./1.gif', './2.txt']
>>> glob.glob('*.gif')
['1.gif', 'card.gif']
>>> glob.glob('?.gif')
['1.gif']

Note: If the directory contains files starting with . they won’t be matched by default. For example, consider a directory containing card.gif and .card.gif:

>>> import glob
>>> glob.glob('*.gif')
['card.gif']
>>> glob.glob('.c*')
['.card.gif']

This comes straight from here: http://docs.python.org/library/glob.html