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6.24 <tt class=
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<span class=
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The
<tt class=
"module">glob
</tt> module finds all the pathnames matching a specified
pattern according to the rules used by the
<span class=
"Unix">Unix
</span> shell. No tilde
expansion is done, but
<code>*
</code>,
<code>?
</code>, and character ranges
expressed with
<code>[]
</code> will be correctly matched. This is done by
using the
<tt class=
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<tt class=
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tilde and shell variable expansion, use
<tt class=
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<tt class=
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Returns a possibly-empty list of path names that match
<var>pathname
</var>,
which must be a string containing a path specification.
<var>pathname
</var> can be either absolute (like
<span class=
"file">/usr/src/Python-
1.5/Makefile
</span>) or relative (like
<span class=
"file">../../Tools/*/*.gif
</span>), and can contain shell-style wildcards.
Broken symlinks are included in the results (as in the shell).
For example, consider a directory containing only the following files:
<span class=
"file">1.gif
</span>,
<span class=
"file">2.txt
</span>, and
<span class=
"file">card.gif
</span>.
<tt class=
"function">glob()
</tt>
will produce the following results. Notice how any leading components
of the path are preserved.
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>>> glob.glob('./[
0-
9].*')
>>> glob.glob('*.gif')
>>> glob.glob('?.gif')
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