glob
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()
.)
/usr/src/Python1.4/Makefile
') or relative (like
`../../Tools/*.gif
'), and can contain shell-style wildcards.
For example, consider a directory containing only the following files:
`1.gif
', `2.txt
', and `card.gif
'. glob.glob()
will produce the following results. Notice how any leading components
of the path are preserved.
>>> import glob >>> glob.glob('./[0-9].*') ['./1.gif', './2.txt'] >>> glob.glob('*.gif') ['1.gif', 'card.gif'] >>> glob.glob('?.gif') ['1.gif']