| Unit 11 | Globbing File Names and Other Strings |
Globbing is the process of matching specific file names and wildcards, which are simplified regular expressions. A wildcard may contain the special symbols ’*’ (represents zero or more characters) and ’?’ (represents exactly one character). Note that ’\’, ’+’, and ’.’ are not special symbols!
The module glob provides a namesake function for matching wildcards. The function returns a list of all file names that match the wildcard passed as the parameter:
| | glob.glob("*.txt") |
| => | ['public.policy.txt', 'big.data.txt'] |
The wildcard ’*’ matches all file names in the current directory (folder), except for those that start with a period (’.’). To match the special file names, use the wildcard ".*" ...
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