How to use glob to read limited set of files with numeric names?

Question

How to use glob to only read limited set of files?

I have json files named numbers from 50 to 20000 (e.g. 50.json,51.json,52.json...19999.json,20000.json) within the

Answer 1

Although it hardly counts as beautiful code, you could implement your own filtering as follows:

import os, re
directory = "/Users/Chris/Dropbox"
all_files = os.listdir(directory)

read_files = [this_file for this_file in all_files 
                if (int(re.findall('\d+', this_file)[-1]) > 18000)]

print read_files

The crucial line here (should) iterate through each file name in the directory (for this_file in all_files), pull out a list of number segments in that file name (re.findall('\d+', this_file)), and include it in read_files if the last of these number segments, as an integer, is greater than 18000.

I think this will break on files with no integers in the name, so user beware.

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Edit: I see the previous answer has been edited to include what looks a much better thought out way to do this.