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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> |
| 71 | and <tt class="function">os.path.expandvars()</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> |
| 78 | <dd> |
| 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 |
| 83 | <span class="file">../../Tools/*/*.gif</span>), and can contain shell-style wildcards. |
| 84 | Broken symlinks are included in the results (as in the shell). |
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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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| 94 | <div class="verbatim"><pre> |
| 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'] |
| 102 | </pre></div> |
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| 109 | <dt>Module <b><tt class="module"><a href="module-fnmatch.html">fnmatch</a></tt>:</b> |
| 110 | <dd>Shell-style filename (not path) expansion. |
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