Passing multiple files with asterisk to python shell in Windows

Question

I\'m going through Google\'s Python exercises and I need to be able to do this from the command line:

python babynames.py --summaryfile baby*.html
         


        

Answer 1

Windows' command interpreter does not expand wildcards as UNIX shells do before passing them to the executed program or script.

python.exe -c "import sys; print sys.argv[1:]" *.txt

Result:

['*.txt']

Solution: Use the glob module.

from glob import glob
from sys import argv

for filename in glob(argv[1]):
    print filename