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

I am adding this to the previous because I found this very useful when you want your scripts to work on multiple shell and with multiple parameters using *.

If you want something that works on every shells, you can do the following (still using glob):

>>> import glob
>>> from functools import reduce # if using python 3+
>>> reduce(lambda r, x: r + glob.glob(x), sys.argv[1:], [])

Note that it can produce duplicate (if you have a test file and you give t* and te*), but you can simply remove them using a set:

>>> set(reduce(lambda r, x: r + glob.glob(x), sys.argv[1:], []))