os.listdir(<file specifications>) doesn't work ??

[Stef Mientki]

hello,

I want to find all files with the extension "*.txt".
From the examples in "Learning Python, Lutz and Asher" and
from the website I see examples where you also may specify a wildcard filegroup.

But when I try this
files = os.listdir('D:\\akto_yk\\yk_controle\\*.txt')

I get an error message

WindowsError: [Errno 123] The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect:
'D:\\akto_yk\\yk_controle\\*.txt/*.*'

What am I doing wrong ?

thanks,
Stef Mientki

[timw.google]

On May 14, 4:09 pm, Stef Mientki <[e-mail]>
wrote:

hello,

I want to find all files with the extension "*.txt".
From the examples in "Learning Python, Lutz and Asher" and
from the website I see examples where you also may specify a wildcard filegroup.

But when I try this
files = os.listdir('D:\\akto_yk\\yk_controle\\*.txt')

I get an error message

WindowsError: [Errno 123] The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect:
'D:\\akto_yk\\yk_controle\\*.txt/*.*'

What am I doing wrong ?

thanks,
Stef Mientki

You want the glob module

http://docs.python.org/lib/module-glob.html

import glob
glob.glob('*.txt')

[Stef Mientki]

timw.google wrote:

On May 14, 4:09 pm, Stef Mientki <[e-mail]>
wrote:

>hello,

I want to find all files with the extension "*.txt".
From the examples in "Learning Python, Lutz and Asher" and
from the website I see examples where you also may specify a wildcard filegroup.

But when I try this
files = os.listdir('D:\\akto_yk\\yk_controle\\*.txt')

I get an error message

WindowsError: [Errno 123] The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect:
'D:\\akto_yk\\yk_controle\\*.txt/*.*'

What am I doing wrong ?

thanks,
Stef Mientki

You want the glob module

http://docs.python.org/lib/module-glob.html

import glob
glob.glob('*.txt')

thanks that works !
Still don't know why it's not allowed through listdir ;-)

cheers,
Stef Mientki

[Michel Claveau]

Hi!

You want the glob module

Warning: glob has "unix like behavior"; just a little different with
windows's DIR


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[Gabriel Genellina]

En Mon, 14 May 2007 18:24:23 -0300, Stef Mientki
<S.**************@mailbox.kun.nlescribió:

>> files = os.listdir('D:\\akto_yk\\yk_controle\\*.txt')

I get an error message

WindowsError: [Errno 123] The filename, directory name, or volume
label syntax is incorrect:
'D:\\akto_yk\\yk_controle\\*.txt/*.*'

Still don't know why it's not allowed through listdir ;-)

Because listir expects a single directory as parameter, not a wildcard
specification.
That is, you could do:
files = os.listdir("D:\\akto_yk\\yk_controle")
to get ALL the filenames in that directory, and then filter them using
fnmatch. But that's exactly what the glob module does internally.

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Gabriel Genellina

[Stef Mientki]

Michel Claveau wrote:

Hi!

>You want the glob module

Warning: glob has "unix like behavior"; just a little different with
windows's DIR

Don't know the details of "Unix"
but I thought "unix" was case-sensitive,
and glob.glob doesn't seem to be,
at least not on windows systems ;-)

cheers,
Stef Mientki

[Looney, James B]

The case sensitivity has to do with the OS you're on. So, using glob
from Un*x is case sensitive, but from Windows it isn't.
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Subject: Re: os.listdir(<file specifications>) doesn't work ??

Michel Claveau wrote:

Hi!

>You want the glob module

Warning: glob has "unix like behavior"; just a little different with
windows's DIR

Don't know the details of "Unix"
but I thought "unix" was case-sensitive,
and glob.glob doesn't seem to be,
at least not on windows systems ;-)

cheers,
Stef Mientki
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