10.7.glob — Unix style pathname pattern expansion¶

Theglob module finds all the pathnames matching a specified patternaccording to the rules used by the Unix shell. No tilde expansion is done, but*,?, and character ranges expressed with[] will be correctlymatched. This is done by using theos.listdir() andfnmatch.fnmatch() functions in concert, and not by actually invoking asubshell. (For tilde and shell variable expansion, useos.path.expanduser() andos.path.expandvars().)

glob.glob(pathname)¶

Return a possibly-empty list of path names that matchpathname, which must bea 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. Brokensymlinks are included in the results (as in the shell).

glob.iglob(pathname)¶

Return aniterator which yields the same values asglob()without actually storing them all simultaneously.

New in version 2.5.

For example, consider a directory containing only the following files:1.gif,2.txt, andcard.gif.glob() will producethe following results. Notice how any leading components of the path arepreserved.

>>>importglob>>>glob.glob('./[0-9].*')['./1.gif', './2.txt']>>>glob.glob('*.gif')['1.gif', 'card.gif']>>>glob.glob('?.gif')['1.gif']