Choose a file starting with a given string

Question

In a directory I have a lot of files, named more or less like this:

001_MN_DX_1_M_32
001_MN_SX_1_M_33
012_BC_2_F_23
...
...

In Python, I ha

Answer 1

You can use the os module to list the files in a directory.

Eg: Find all files in the current directory where name starts with 001_MN_DX

import os
list_of_files = os.listdir(os.getcwd()) #list of files in the current directory
for each_file in list_of_files:
    if each_file.startswith('001_MN_DX'):  #since its all type str you can simply use startswith
        print each_file