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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().)
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- Returns a possibly-empty list of path names that match pathname, which must
be a string containing a path specification. pathname can be either absolute
(like /usr/src/Python-1.5/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()
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']
See Also:
- Module fnmatch:
- Shell-style filename (not path) expansion.
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