The glob module finds all the pathnames matching a specified pattern according to the rules used by the Unix shell. No tilde expansion is done, but *, ?, and character ranges expressed with [] will be correctly matched. This is done by using the os.listdir() and fnmatch.fnmatch() functions in concert, and not by actually invoking a subshell. (For tilde and shell variable expansion, use os.path.expanduser() and os.path.expandvars().)
For example, consider a directory containing only the following files: 1.gif, 2.txt, and card.gif. glob() will produce the following results. Notice how any leading components of the path are preserved.
Depending on what you want to do, once you get all the filenames into a list using glob you may also find some help in parsing filenames into individual parts (drive, path, base name, extension) using the os.path module. I find these two modules to be a huge help in working with file names.
Depending on what you want to do, once you get all the filenames into a list using glob you may also find some help in parsing filenames into individual parts (drive, path, base name, extension) using the os.path module. I find these two modules to be a huge help in working with file names.
There are a several threads on the Python forum on compiling a list of file names from a specific directory. In short, the file list can be created like this:
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>>> dn = 'directory_path'
>>> fileStr = '\n'.join([f for f in os.listdir(dn) if os.path.isfile(os.path.join(dn, f))])
Directory listings are skipped in the above list comprehension. To write the resulting string to a disk file:
