10.7. Glob - Unix Style Pathname Pattern Expansion - Python 2.7.18 Documentation

The glob module finds all file paths matching a specified pattern similar to how a Unix shell works. It uses wildcards like * and ? to match characters. glob.glob() returns a list of matching paths and glob.iglob() returns an iterator. Patterns can contain brackets to match specific characters or wrap meta-characters to match them literally. glob only matches non-hidden files by default.

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10.7. 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, although results are returned in arbitrary order. 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.
Note that unlike fnmatch.fnmatch() , glob treats filenames beginning with a dot ( . ) as special cases.
(For tilde and shell variable expansion, use os.path.expanduser() and os.path.expandvars() .)

For a literal match, wrap the meta-characters in brackets. For example, '[?]' matches the
character '?' .

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.

New in version 2.5.

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']

If the directory contains files starting with . they won’t be matched by default. For example,
consider a directory containing card.gif and .card.gif :

>>> import glob

>>> glob.glob('*.gif')
['card.gif']

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>>> glob.glob('.c*')
['.card.gif']

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glob. glob (pathname)

glob. iglob (pathname) ¶

New in version 2.5.

>>> import glob

>>> import glob

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