10.6. glob
— Unix style pathname pattern expansion¶
Source code: Lib/glob.py
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()
.)
-
glob.
glob
(pathname)¶ Return 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. Broken symlinks are included in the results (as in the shell).
-
glob.
iglob
(pathname)¶ Return an iterator which yields the same values as
glob()
without actually storing them all simultaneously.
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