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56 | 6.24 <tt class="module">glob</tt> -- | |
57 | <span class="Unix">Unix</span> style pathname pattern expansion</A> | |
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64 | The <tt class="module">glob</tt> module finds all the pathnames matching a specified | |
65 | pattern according to the rules used by the <span class="Unix">Unix</span> shell. No tilde | |
66 | expansion is done, but <code>*</code>, <code>?</code>, and character ranges | |
67 | expressed with <code>[]</code> will be correctly matched. This is done by | |
68 | using the <tt class="function">os.listdir()</tt> and <tt class="function">fnmatch.fnmatch()</tt> | |
69 | functions in concert, and not by actually invoking a subshell. (For | |
70 | tilde and shell variable expansion, use <tt class="function">os.path.expanduser()</tt> | |
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76 | <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-2339' xml:id='l2h-2339' class="function">glob</tt></b>(</nobr></td> | |
77 | <td><var>pathname</var>)</td></tr></table></dt> | |
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79 | Returns a possibly-empty list of path names that match <var>pathname</var>, | |
80 | which must be a string containing a path specification. | |
81 | <var>pathname</var> can be either absolute (like | |
82 | <span class="file">/usr/src/Python-1.5/Makefile</span>) or relative (like | |
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88 | For example, consider a directory containing only the following files: | |
89 | <span class="file">1.gif</span>, <span class="file">2.txt</span>, and <span class="file">card.gif</span>. <tt class="function">glob()</tt> | |
90 | will produce the following results. Notice how any leading components | |
91 | of the path are preserved. | |
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95 | >>> import glob | |
96 | >>> glob.glob('./[0-9].*') | |
97 | ['./1.gif', './2.txt'] | |
98 | >>> glob.glob('*.gif') | |
99 | ['1.gif', 'card.gif'] | |
100 | >>> glob.glob('?.gif') | |
101 | ['1.gif'] | |
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109 | <dt>Module <b><tt class="module"><a href="module-fnmatch.html">fnmatch</a></tt>:</b> | |
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